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PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

ACLs

In Windows environments, file and directory permissions, referred to as access rights, are defined in access control lists (ACLs). Although ACLs are more complex than mode bits, ACLs can express much more granular sets of access rules. OneFS checks the ACL processing rules commonly associated with Windows ACLs.

A Windows ACL contains zero or more access control entries (ACEs), each of which represents the security identifier (SID) of a user or a group as a trustee. In OneFS, an ACL can contain ACEs with a UID, GID, or SID as the trustee. Each ACE contains a set of rights that allow or deny access to a file or folder. An ACE can optionally contain an inheritance flag to specify whether the ACE should be inherited by child folders and files.

NOTE:Instead of the standard three permissions available for mode bits, ACLs have 32 bits of fine-grained access rights. Of these, the upper 16 bits are general and apply to all object types. The lower 16 bits vary between files and directories but are defined in a way that allows most applications to apply the same bits for files and directories.

Rights grant or deny access for a given trustee. You can block user access explicitly through a deny ACE or implicitly by ensuring that a user does not directly, or indirectly through a group, appear in an ACE that grants the right.


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