Pos 355 File Management Paper

File Management Paper
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POS 355
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File Management Paper
File access is very important for any organization. The organization has to make sure that the proper personnel are given access to the files that they need to work on or need to get information they need. Even more important than to give the right personnel access, keeping unauthorized users from entering the files is more important. In this paper, the scenario of a system that supports 5,000 users and only 4,990 of said users would have access to one file will be use. The question to be answered is of how to specify this protection scheme in UNIX. It is very important to set up a protection scheme that will allow control access and viewing privileges of specific files to a number of different users. It is also a necessary task to ensure the integrity of
The UNIX files types are regular or ordinary, directory, special, named pipes, links, and symbolic links.
“Note that the permissions that apply to a directory are distinct from those that apply to any file or directory it contains. The fact that a user has the right to write to the directory does not give the user the right to write to a file in that directory. That is governed by the permissions of the specific file. The user would, however, have the right to rename the file,(Stallings, 2012).”
File access is very important for any organization. The organization has to make sure that the proper personnel are given access to the files that they need to work on or need to get information they need. Even more important than to give the right personnel access, keeping unauthorized users from entering the files is more important. For the scenario of a system that supports 5,000 users and only 4,990 of said users would have access to one file, UNIX was used. Each user would have a masked entry that will specified if the user is allow to do anything to the