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Understanding the protocol support for OES 2 services can help you begin to plan your OES
implementation. For more information, see
Requirements" on page 169.
Access Control Options in OES 2
Because OES 2 offers both traditional Novell access control and POSIX access control, you have a
variety of approaches available to you, including combining the two models to serve various aspects
of your network services.
Table 16-1 provides links to documentation that discusses OES 2 access control features.
General File System Access Control
Table 16-1
Feature
Access Control Lists (ACLs) on
Linux
Aligning NCP and POSIX access
rights
Directory and file attributes
File system trustee rights
Novell trustee rights and directory
and file attributes
POSIX file system rights and
attributes on Linux
Security Equivalence in
eDirectory
"Matching Protocols and Services to Check Access
To Understand
How ACLs are supported on the
most commonly used Linux
POSIX file systems and let you
assign file and directory
permissions to users and groups
who do not own the files or
directories.
How to approximate the NCP (or
NetWare) access control model
on POSIX file systems.
Directory and file attributes on
NSS volumes.
File system trustee rights on
NetWare (NSS and traditional
volumes), including how effective
file system trustee rights are
determined.
How to control who can see
which files and what they can do
with them.
How to configure file system
attributes on OES 2 servers.
The concept of Security
Equivalence in eDirectory.
See
"Access Control Lists in Linux"
(http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10/
sles_admin/data/cha_acls.html)
in the SLES 10 SP3: Installation
and Administration Guide (http://
www.novell.com/documentation/
sles10/sles_admin/data/
sles_admin.html)
"Section 17.4, "Aligning NCP and
POSIX File Access Rights," on
page 192"
"Directory and File Attributes for
NSS Volumes" in the OES 2 SP3:
File Systems Management Guide
"File-System Trustee Rights
the OES 2 SP3: File Systems
Management Guide
"Understanding File System
Access Control Using Trustees"
in the OES 2 SP3: File Systems
Management Guide
"Access Control Lists in Linux"
(http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10/
sles_admin/data/cha_acls.html)
in the SLES 10 SP3: Installation
and Administration Guide (http://
www.novell.com/documentation/
sles10/sles_admin/data/
sles_admin.html)
"eDirectory Objects and Security
Equivalence" in the OES 2 SP3:
File Systems Management Guide
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