I'm trying to give a user rights to...

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Jul 2003

I'm trying to give a user rights to a home directory, using the Beans for Novell Services. I can create the directory (in the first part of the code below), but assigning an owner to the directory fails.

volAdmBean = new NWVolAdm();
   int dir = com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWEntry.DIR;
   volAdmBean.setFullName(volume);
   volEntries = volAdmBean.findEntry(parentDir).getEntries();


   if (volEntries.addElement(dirName, dir))
   {
      System.out.println("Full: " +  volEntries.getElement(dirName).
	  getFullName());
      //this is where it starts to fall apart
      volEntries.getElement(dirName).setOwner(owner);
      volEntry = volEntries.getElement(dirName);
      if (volEntry != null)
      {
         volEntry.setOwner(owner);

It doesn't appear to be a rights issue because I can set the owner in ConsoleOne with the logged in user.

Rights are given by setting a trustee (the user owning the rights).

// Sets trustee and rights.
   //In this method:
   // volume- is an existing NWVolAdm object
   // parent and child are directories as in
   // context.vol.parent.child and child
   // is the directory for which rights are set
   // trustee is a user object owner of the rights
   // pathToUser specifies the path to user such as
   // ".itse.empl.abby.test.ucfv" where "ucfv" is the first
   // directory under the tree


   public boolean addTrustee(String parent,String child,
      com.novell.beans.NWDir.NWEntry trustee,
      String pathToUser)throws NWBeanException{
      int canRead=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.READ;
      int canWrite=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.WRITE;
      int canCreate=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.CREATE;
      int canAccess=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.ACCESS;
      int canDelete=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.ERASE;
      int canChange=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.MODIFY;
      int canScan=com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWRights.SCAN;
      int defRights=canRead  | canWrite | canScan | canDelete
	      | canChange | canCreate;


      com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWEntry parentEntry=volume.
	     findEntry(parent);
      if(isFile(parentEntry))   //can't have a File as parent
         return false;
      com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWEntries entries=parentEntry.
	     getEntries();
      com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWEntry childEntry=entries.
	     getElement(child);
      com.novell.beans.NWVolAdm.NWTrustees    trustees=childEntry.
	     getTrustees();
      return trustees.addElement(trustee.getShortName()+pathToUser,
	     defRights);
   }

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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