iSeries authorities and NetWare rights

NetWare files and directories are protected by these rights:

Right Description
Supervisor The right to all rights
Read Open, read, and run a file
Write Open and write to a file or directory
Create For directories, the right to create files and subdirectories. For files, the right to salvage a file after it has been deleted.
Erase Delete a file or directory
Modify Rename or change attributes
File Scan File Scan
Access control Change access rights

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

iSeries™ authorities map to these NetWare rights, as follows:

iSeries Authorities NetWare Rights
None Supr Read Write File Scan Create Erase Modify Access Control
*OBJOPR * * * * *
*OBJMGT X
*OBJALTER X
*OBJREF X
*OBJEXIST
*EXCLUDE X
*AUTL
*READ (*R) X
*ADD (*W) X
*UPD (*W) X
*DLT (*W) X
*EXECUTE (*X) X
Notes:
  • Supr is Supervisor authority
  • The iSeries *OBJOPR authority bit is turned on when a user has any data authority (*READ, *ADD, *UPD, *DLT, or *EXECUTE), but is not mapped explicitly to any specific NetWare right or rights.
  • The NetWare right of None is equivalent to iSeries *EXCLUDE authority.
  • The CHGAUT command does not allow you to set *ADD, *UPD, and *DLT authorities individually. Instead, you must set them all by specifying *W. However, the DSPAUT command displays the *ADD, *UPD, and *DLT authorities individually if a subset of them are granted to a trustee from a NetWare interface such as NWADMIN, NETADMIN, or FILER.