File System Rights; Edirectory Rights - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

If you have multiple administrators who are each responsible for a domain (a distributed
GroupWise administration model), you can restrict their rights to only those eDirectory objects
and file systems associated with their GroupWise domain.
If you have one administrator whom you want to control all links between domains, you can
assign rights to the eDirectory objects and file systems associated with domains links.
The following two sections,
"eDirectory Rights," on page
eDirectory object and property rights needed to perform GroupWise administration tasks.
The final section,
lists some common types of GroupWise administrators (for example, Domain administrator and
Post Office administrator) and the specific file system and eDirectory rights they need.

79.2.1 File System Rights

A GroupWise administrator must have an account (or security equivalence) that provides the
following rights to the directories listed below:
Table 79-1
Directory
Any GroupWise system directory the administrator is
responsible for. This includes:
domain directories
post office directories
software distribution directories
library storage area directories
Any directory in which the GroupWise agents are
installed.
For NetWare, the default directory is
For Windows, the default agent subdirectories are
located under
Files\Novell\GroupWise Server
For information about managing the Linux agents as a non-
GroupWise Agents As a Non-root
Installation

79.2.2 eDirectory Rights

The eDirectory object and property rights an administrator requires depend on the administrative
tasks he or she needs to perform. In GroupWise administration, there are five basic tasks an
administrator can perform:
Create and delete objects
resources, external entities, and distribution lists).
1178 GroupWise 8 Administration Guide
Section 79.2.1, "File System Rights," on page 1178
1178, provide general information about the file system rights and
Section 79.2.3, "Common Types of GroupWise Administrators," on page
GroupWise Administrator Rights
sys:\system
c:\Program
User" in
Guide.
(for example, domains, post offices, gateways, agents, libraries,
NetWare Rights
Read
Write
Create
Erase
Modify
File Scan
Access Control
Read
Write
Create
.
Erase
Modify
File Scan
.
Access Control
root
"Installing GroupWise
and Section 79.2.2,
Windows Permissions
Full Control
Full Control
user, see "Running the Linux
Agents" in the GroupWise 8
1182,