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Section 2 - 32 SENTRY User’s Guide
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the user is not the owner and not a member of the group associated with a file, the permissions displayed
for the user will be that of “other”. The benefit of this feature is that you may browse through your file
system, viewing access rights without having to know if a user is in a particular group or not. This saves
time!
FILE.MANAGER General File Utility 14:34:37 18 AUG 2000
Path : / (32 entries.)
Access shown for user bee (201)
top...
--> drwx------ root mail --- .elm
-r--r--r-- bin bin r-- .profile
-r--r--r-- bin bin r-- .profile.orig
-rw------- root sys --- .rhosts
-rw-rw-rw- root sys rw- .sh_history
-rw-rw-rw- root sys rw- .ustk_root
-r--r--r-- root sys r-- .uvhome
-rw-rw---- root sys --- IDMERROR.console
-rw-rw---- root sys --- IDMERROR.pty-ttyp3
drwx------ root mail --- Mail
-rwxr-xr-x root root r-x SYSBCKUP
drwxr-xr-x root other r-x bin
drwxr-xr-x root other r-x dev
drwxr-xr-x root other r-x etc
drwxr-xr-x root other r-x exl_usr
-rwxr-xr-x root sys r-x hp-ux
-rwx-----x root adm --x jaf
Enter the user name or UID to view (@ for X-ref).bee
Figure 30 - This is an example of the permissions in force for the user “bee”.
You may also view the permissions for a specified group. As you can see in the next example. This
feature allows you to quickly check permissions with little effort.