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Chapter 4: Permissions 43
Effective Permissions
The permissions you have to an object in the Data Protector Express catalog are called your
Effective
permissions . You can view your effective permissions to an object on the General page of that object.
Determining effective permissions
A user is assigned effective permissions to an object through by
direct permissions
or
inherited
permissions
.
A user has
direct permissions
to an object if they are listed on the
Permissions
page of the object, if they
are equivalent to a user who has direct permissions to the object or if they are a member of a group that is
listed on the
Permissions
page of that object.
A user has
inherited permissions
to an object if they do not have direct permission when they have
effective permissions to the container that contains the object. If you do not have direct permissions to an
object, you must have effective permissions to the container in which the object is stored.
NOTE: Your effective permissions to a container object can be either direct or inherited. All that matters is
that you have effective permissions to the container.
When determining a user’s effective permissions to an object, Data Protector Express checks if the user
has direct permission; if not, Data Protector Express checks if they have inherited permission.
For example, if a user has the Read direct permission, but the group has the Access permission, the user’s
effective permission is
Access
.
Examples of determining effective permissions
The following two examples illustrate how Data Protector Express determines the effective permissions a
user has to an object.
Effective permissions example #1
In this example, a user has direct permissions only to the User/Group folder named My Folder .