Users can receive rights in a number of ways, such as explicit trustee assignments, inheritance, and security equivalence. Rights can also be limited by IRFs and changed or revoked by subsequent trustee assignments. The net result of all these actions--the rights a user can employ--are called effective rights.
A user's effective rights to an NDS object are calculated each time the user attempts an action. NWAdmin checks the effective rights of any object and displays them for you, as shown below.
The effective rights displayed for User KLarson are