NetWare 6 File System: Effective Rights Practice

Scenarios

The following five scenarios, are problems similar to what you may see on the NetWare 6 CNA exam "Foundations of Novell Networking", where you have to deduce what a user's effective rights are in a given file system structure.

Even though the operating system is very generous in clearly showing a user's effective rights, Novell expects all CNA candidates to logically conclude what a user's rights are based on a scenario.  The first three scenarios take a look at simple file system inheritance based strictly on a user's explicit trustee assignments and inherited assignments.  The second two scenarios examine complex file system inheritance based on a user's trustee assignments, inherited and explicit, and any trustee assignments the user may have based on groups (including organizational roles) that the user is a member of.

Instructions:

Based on the scenarios, fill in the blanks with the rights that the user has at each level of the file system. For Scenario 1 you would fill in all blanks, starting at the Shared folder, under user Emma. For Scenario 2 you would do the same under user George, and so on. An IRF is provided at each level of the file system. Your responses must consider the IRF.

Simple File System Inheritance

Scenario 1:

For the following three scenarios, the file system structure is: SHARED > DEPARTMENTAL > TRAINING > EVALS.DOC Scenario 1: If Emma has been granted the [RF] trustee assignment to the SHARED directory, what are her effective rights at each level of the file system?

Scenario 2:If George has been granted the [S] trustee assignment to the SHARED directory, what are his effective rights at each level of the file system?

Scenario 3:

If Marian has been granted the [RWCEMFA] trustee assignment to the SHARED directory, and has been granted the [RWF] trustee assignment to the EVALS.DOC file, what are her effective rights at each level of the file system?

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Complex File System Inheritance

Scenario 1:

If Robbie has been granted the [RFMA] Individual trustee assignment to the SHARED directory, and as a member of the [Public] trustee has been granted the [WCE] trustee assignment to the DEPARTMENTAL directory, what are his effective rights at each level of the file system.

Scenario 2:

If Gregory has been granted the [S] Individual trustee assignment to the TRAINING directory, and as a member of the Trainers group has been granted the [WCEF] assignment to the DEPARTMENTAL directory, and as a member of the [PUBLIC] trustee has been granted the [R] trustee assignment to the SHARED directory, what are his effective rights at each level of the file system?

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