Changing Trustee Rights - Novell CLIENT FOR LINUX 1.1 Installation And Administration Manual

4 View the information.
5 To view a list of rights and filters inherited by this file or directory, click Inherited Rights and
6 Click OK.

5.2 Changing Trustee Rights

The assignment of rights involves a trustee and a target object. The trustee represents the user or set
of users that are receiving the authority. The target represents those network resources the users have
authority over. You must have the Access Control right to change trustee assignments.
1 In a file manager, right-click a Novell file system directory or file.
2 Do one of the following:
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The Trustees list shows the users or groups that have been granted rights to work with this file
or folder. The trustees rights to the folder also apply to all the files and subfolders it contains
unless the rights are explicitly redefined at the file or subfolder level.
The rights that each trustee has are shown by check marks under the letters. If you are viewing
the properties of multiple files, the trustees and rights shown are the combined trustees and
rights for all the files.
Effective Rights displays your rights for this file or folder. Users can receive rights in a number
of ways, such as explicit trustee assignments, inheritance, and security equivalence (see
eDirectory Rights Concepts (http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/edir873/data/
fbachifb.html) in the Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 Administration Guide for more information).
Rights can also be limited by Inherited Rights Filters and changed or revoked by lower trustee
assignments. The net result of all these actions—the rights a user can employ—are called
effective rights.
Filters.
All rights assignments on directories are inheritable. You can block such inheritance on
individual subordinate items so that the rights aren't effective on those items, no matter who the
trustee is. One exception is that the Supervisor right can't be blocked.