From: Kelvin D Spaulding

We've been using mixed-style qtrees for home directories for a little more than a year with no real problems. At first the users had some difficulties understanding how the permissions worked. The ones who actually cared contacted our IT organization and we explained how it worked. We do the initial setting to NTFS when the home directories are created. This causes the UNIX folk to see what appears to be mode 777 home directories. We needed to belay their concerns that we were creating wide-open areas.

Some of our admins had some difficulty grasping the idea also; but we worked our way through that. All-in-all, we've been very happy with the mixed-style qtrees for home directories.

Kelly Spaulding Eastman Kodak Co. Commercial & Government Systems kelvin.spaulding@kodak.com

Kelly McQuarrie kellym@sd.us.am.ericsson.se@mathworks.com on 05/07/2002 03:05:41 PM

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To: toasters@mathworks.com cc: Subject: mixed security style

Hello all:

I have a large number of windows/unix home directories on my NetApps all under unix qtrees. I'm a unix admin so this works great for me but the NT admins have complained that they can access their users data. I would like any war stories, opions, etc from people who have tried and or use the mixed qtrees for this purpose. Any suggestions and what not are totally welcomed!

Thank you sooo much for your time 8)

Kelly McQuarrie Unix System Administrator Ericsson CDMA Systems