Tool

by peter hine

I noticed that while the rights facility under Linux was useful for telling you the rights for a particular directory, it wasn't suitable or really useful for anything more. NetWare has trustees.nlm that can backup a volumes trustees to a XML sheet, but Linux doesn't have that. Simply backing up the
.XML sheet in ._NETWARE directory and copying it back in when needed (or editing it to add particular trustees) only worked occasionally.

I was desiring a tool that would record the current rights in a way that tbackup.exe used to do (when it worked). So here it is.

The ZIP file includes tbackup.sh.

Usage:

tbackup.sh [-f dir] [-r]
Creates a trestore.sh in the root of each volume unless -f is used.
-r relative. Don't include the /media/nss directory.
-f do one directory only, by default program does every volume in /media/nss.

Example output of what trestore.sh would look like:

#!/bin/bash
# Restore rights to volume DATA
rights -f "/media/nss/DATA" -r  irf
rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/apps" -r rf trustee
".CN=Deploy.OU=SubOU.OU=Network.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE"

rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/deploy" -r rf trustee
".CN=Deploy.OU=SubOU.OU=Network.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE"

rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/user/TestScoundrel" -r rwcefm trustee
".CN=TestScoundrel.OU=OU2.OU=Location.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE"