Access control lists 

Table of Contents: Administering Lotus Foundations Start: FS12

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An Access Control List (ACL) defines which permissions, or access rights, that each user or team has to a specific file or directory.

Administrators can modify a IBM® Lotus Foundations™ user or team's permissions, Read Only, Read/Write, or No Permissions on directories through the IBM Lotus Foundations Permissions feature.

Setting a user's permissions

Follow these steps to set a user's permissions:

1. Click File Server in the left menu of WebConfig. Click the Permissions tab.
2. Scroll down the list of teams, admins, and users in the selection box and click the directory to which you want to assign permissions. Click Show Permissions.
3. The Modify File Permissions page is displayed showing the current permissions for that directory.
4. Modify the user's permissions by selecting either the Read Only, Read/Write, or No Permissions radio button. Click the check mark button for Include Subfolder(s) if you want the same permission applied recursively, then click the save icon in the Action column.
5. If you want to add permissions, in the last row titled Add, select the folder from the drop-down, and click the green plus sign in the Action column.
6. To set all the files and folders under the current directory back to the default permission value, click Reset Folder Permissions.
7. To set all the files and folders under the current directory, including all subfolder files back to the default permission value, click Reset Tree Permissions.
   
   

Setting a team's permissions

Follow these steps to set a team's permissions:

1. Click File Server in the left menu of WebConfig. Click the Permissions tab.
2. Scroll down the list of teams, admins, and users in the selection box and click the directory of the team to whom you want to assign permissions. Click Show Permissions.
3. The Modify File Permissions page is displayed, showing the current permissions for that directory.
4. Modify the team's permissions by selecting either the Read Only, Read/Write, or No Permissions radio button. Click the check mark button for Include Subfolder(s) if you want the same permission applied recursively, then click save icon in the Action column.
5. To view the permissions of all users assigned to that team, click the plus symbol to the left of the team name in the Modify File Permissions section. This expands the team list and show all users within that team and their permission levels.
6. If you want to add permissions, in the last row titled Add, select the folder from the drop-down, and click the green plus sign in the Action column.
7. To set all the files and folders under the current directory back to the default permission value, click Reset Folder Permissions.
8. To set all the files and folders under the current directory, including all subfolder files back to the default permission value, click Reset Tree Permissions.
   
   

Parent topic: File services: FS12