Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 206)

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Note: QuickTime Streaming Server and WebDAV have their own privileges settings. For
information about QTSS, refer to the QTSS online help and the QuickTime Web site
(www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/). You’ll find information on Web privileges in
“Understanding WebDAV” on page 339.
Explicit Privileges
Share points and the shared items contained in share points (including both folders and
files) have their own individual privileges. If you move an item to another folder, it retains its
own privileges and doesn’t automatically adopt the privileges of the folder where you moved
it. In the following illustration, the second folder (Designs) and the third folder (Documents)
were assigned privileges that are different from those of their “parent” folders:
When new files and folders are created, however, they inherit the privileges of their parent
folder. See “Privileges in the Mac OS X Environment” on page 207.
User Categories
You can assign access privileges separately to three categories of users:
Owner
A user who creates a new item (file or folder) on the file server is its owner and automatically
has Read & Write privileges to that folder. By default, the owner of an item and the server
administrator are the only users who can change its access privileges—allow a group or
everyone to use the item. The administrator can also transfer ownership of the shared item
to another user.
Note: When you copy an item to a drop box on an Apple file server, ownership of that item
is transferred to the owner of the drop box. This is done because only the owner of the drop
box has access to items copied to it.
Group
You can put users who need the same access to files and folders into group accounts. Only
one group can be assigned access privileges to a shared item. For more information on
creating groups see Chapter 3, “Users and Groups.”
Engineering
Read & Write
Designs
Documents
Read Only
Read & Write