View expected user permissions

You can view the expected permissions for user access to a file or directory.

About this task

This procedure must be performed through the command-line interface (CLI).

Procedure

  1. Establish an SSH connection to any node in the cluster.
  2. View expected user permissions by running the isi auth access command.
    The following command displays permissions in /ifs/ for the user that you specify in place of <username>: 
    isi auth access <username> /ifs/
    The system displays output similar to the following example: 
            User
           Name : <username>
            UID : 2018
            SID : SID:S-1-5-21-2141457107-1514332578-1691322784-1018
       File
          Owner : user:root
          Group : group:wheel
           Mode : drwxrwxrwx 
  Relevant Mode : d---rwx--- 
Permissions
       Expected : user:<username> \
        allow dir_gen_read,dir_gen_write,dir_gen_execute,delete_child
  3. View mode-bits permissions for a user by running the isi auth access command.
    The following command displays verbose-mode file permissions information in /ifs/ for the user that you specify in place of <username>: 
    isi auth access <username> /ifs/ -v
    The system displays output similar to the following example: 
    User Name : <username> UID \
: 2018 SID : SID:S-1-5-21-2141457107-1514332578-1691322784-1018 
File Owner : user:root Group : group:wheel Mode : drwxrwxrwx 
Relevant Mode : d---rwx--- Permissions Expected : user:<username>
allow dir_gen_read,dir_gen_write,dir_gen_execute,delete_child
  4. View expected ACL user permissions on a file for a user by running the isi auth access command.
    The following command displays verbose-mode ACL file permissions for the file file_with_acl.tx in /ifs/data/ for the user that you specify in place of <username>: 
    isi auth access <username> /ifs/data/file_with_acl.tx -v
    The system displays output similar to the following example: 
    User Name : <username> \
UID : 2097 SID : SID:S-1-7-21-2141457107-1614332578-1691322789-1018 
File Owner : user:<username> Group : group:wheel 
Permissions Expected : user:<username> 
allow file_gen_read,file_gen_write,std_write_dac 
Relevant Acl: group:<group-name> Users allow file_gen_read 
user:<username> allow std_write_dac,file_write,
append,file_write_ext_attr,file_write_attr 
group:wheel allow file_gen_read,file_gen_write