14.6 What are the various trustee rights?

The table shows the list of available file-system trustee rights.

File-System Trustee Rights

Description

Supervisor (S)

Grants the trustee all rights to the directory or file and any subordinate items.

The Supervisor right cannot be blocked with an IRF (Inherited Rights Filter) and cannot be revoked. Users who have this right can also grant other users any rights to the directory or file and can change its Inherited Rights Filter.

Default = Off

Read (R)

Grants the trustee the ability to open and read files, and open, read, and execute applications.

Default = On

Write (W)

Grants the trustee the ability to open and modify (write to) an existing file.

Default = Off

Create (C)

Grants the trustee the ability to create directories and files and salvage deleted files.

Default = Off

Erase (E)

Grants the trustee the ability to delete directories and files.

Default = Off

Modify (M)

Grants the trustee the ability to rename directories and files, and change file attributes. It does not allow the user to modify the contents of the file.

Default = Off

File Scan (F)

Grants the trustee the ability to view directory and file names in the file system structure, including the directory structure from that file to the root directory.

Default = Off

Access Control (A)

Grants the trustee the ability to add and remove trustees for directories and files, to modify the rights assigned for trustees, and set the inherited rights filters.

This right does not allow the trustee to add or remove the Supervisor right for any user. Also, it does not allow to remove the trustee with Supervisor right.

Default = Off