Authorize users to files and directories

NetWare Enhanced Integration fully puts into effect NetWare security and authenticates each user before allowing access to NetWare data. After installing NetWare Enhanced Integration, you must add authentication entries for each user, or each user must start a connection to the NetWare server before using the file system.

When authorizing users to NetWare files and directories, consider that users inherit rights from parent directories and that a specific right overrides an inherited right. Typically it is easier to authorize a user to a high-level parent directory and control which authorities you allow to flow down to lower level directories by using NetWare Inherited Rights Filters.

To authorize users to files and directories (or change their authority), you use the Work with Authority (WRKAUT) or Change Authority (CHGAUT) commands. To authorize a user to an object with the CHGAUT command, do this:

1. On the iSeries™ command line, type CHGAUT and press F4.
2. In the Object field, specify the name of the object to which you want to give the user authority.
3. Specify the new data and object authorities that you want the user to have and press Enter to run the command.

The QNetWare file system changes the authority on the NetWare server; it does not maintain its own copy. NetWare authority and ownership has information about these topics:

• NetWare authorities and object rights
• How the iSeries authorities that you assign are mapped to NetWare rights

The authority to write, delete, or rename a file is also controlled by NetWare file attributes. NetWare file mode support provides more information.