* Novell plans to release Novell-style file management/file services on Linux
In one of our section stories this week we take a look at an important technological event.
Namely that Novell will extend the same access controls and rights they use in NetWare to the company’s Nterprise Linux Services, which ships this week.
According to our author (dconnor@nww.com) Novell claims it will release what it calls Novell-style file management/file services on Linux in two releases scheduled for 2004. This release includes access rights and privileges, trustee rights and permissions.
Access controls specify which users or groups within an organization can access files or folders and what they can do after accessing them. When access controls are assigned to users or groups of users in NetWare, they are known as trustee rights, permissions, access privileges and access rights.
In NetWare, access rights for files and folders are classed by the permission they involve – Access Control, Create, Erase, File Scan, Modify, Read, Supervisory and Write. Users can be assigned to groups, and within groups users can have different rights. In Linux there are only three access rights – Read, Write and Execute – by contrast, these few rights are less granular and flexible and don’t let IT administrators create as secure file access.
IT managers say that the same access control features they have in NetWare are critical for Novell’s Linux implementation.
To find out more, see: https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215netware.html
