Windows permissions guidelines, Rapid nfs and rapid cifs – Dell PowerVault DR2000v User Manual

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Group (group in which the owner belongs)

Other (other users with an account on the system)

Each of these three user types support the following access permissions:

Read (read access that allows user to read files)

Write (write access that allows user to create or write to a file)

Execute (access that allows user to execute files or traverse directories in the filesystem)

NOTE: A root user has all levels of permission access, and a user can be a member of a single group or of multiple
groups (up to 32 groups are allowed in Unix).

Windows Permissions Guidelines

To enable Windows access, the DR Series system supports access control lists (ACLs) that contain zero or more access
control entries (ACEs), and an empty ACE list grants all access requests. The Windows New Technology File System
(NTFS) uses ACLs as part of the security descriptor (SD) process, which requires permissions to access such filesystem
objects as files and directories. ACLs support two levels of users:

Owners

Groups

Both Owners and Groups have Security IDs (SIDs) that define and identify an object owner or the group owning an
object. ACEs in an ACL consist of a SID, a specific permission that either allows or denies access and also defines
which of the following inheritance settings apply:

IO—inherit-only: not used for access checking.

OI—object inherit: new files get this ACE added.

CI—container inherit: new directories get this ACE added.

Windows NTFS ACLs include the following read, write, append, execute, and delete permissions that allow users to:

Synchronize access

Read data or list the directory

Write data or add a file

Append data or add a folder

Read Extended Attributes (EAs)

Write EAs

Execute file or traverse folders

Delete child or delete folders

Delete a file

The Owner user type has two default permissions:

Write discretionary ACL

Read control

Rapid NFS and Rapid CIFS

Rapid NFS and Rapid CIFS enable write operation acceleration on clients that use DR replication and NFS or CIFS file
system protocols. Similar to OST and RDS, these accelerators allow for better coordination and integration between DR
Series system backup, restore, and optimized deduplication operations with Data Management Applications (DMAs)

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