OWC JUPITER CALLISTO
USERS, GROUPS, & PERMISSIONS
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5.2 CREATING A USER
To create a user, click on ‘Account’ in the sidebar to expand the category, then click on ‘Users’ to expand it. After that, click on
‘Add User’ to open the following window (
Figure 5.2
).
Enter a username. If the new user is going to be a member of an existing group, uncheck ‘Create a new primary group for the
user’, then select a group from the ‘Primary Group’ dropdown menu. If you leave ‘Create a new primary group for the user’
checked, a new group will be created with the same name as the new user.
Next, choose a home directory for the user. Click ‘Browse’, then navigate to the filesystem that you want to use as the user’s
home directory. You can also select the pool as the home directory. The only other required fields are ‘Full Name’ and
‘Password’. If you click ‘Advanced Mode’ at the bottom, you can modify access permissions for the new user. Click ‘OK’ at the
bottom to create the new user.
5.3 PERMISSIONS
Every pool, filesystem, and network share that you create has a set of permissions associated with it. These permissions tell
the Jupiter Callisto which users and groups are allowed to read, write, and execute files. These permissions are represented
by an ACL (Access Control List), which looks like this (
Figure 5.3
):
The ‘Owner’ column sets the permissions for any user that is set as the owner of the directory, pool, or filesystem. ‘Group’ sets
the permissions for all users that are in any of the groups that have been given specific access. ‘Other’ sets the permissions
for all other users attempting to use the storage. As shown above, the default settings in the ACL are to give the owner read/
write/execute access, while the group and any other users have read and execute access, but not write.
Figure 5.2
Figure 5.3