image\acl_0000.gifUsing the Visual DCE ACL Editor

Overview

What Is a DCE Access Control List?

What Is a Cell?

Naming Environments

Naming Guidelines

What Is the Visual DCE ACL Editor?

Why Use Access Control?

What Is an Access Control List Entry?

ACL Entry Types

ACL Mask Entries

How Are ACLs Interpreted?

Understanding Permissions

Trust Relationships in Cells

Comparison of the Visual DCE ACL Editor and the OSF DCE ACL Editor (acl_edit)

How to...

Get Started

Determine Who Has Access to an Object

Copy ACLs

Open Other Types of ACLs

Add New ACL Entries

Remove ACL Entries

Change Permissions

View ACLs

About the...

Visual DCE ACL Editor Main Window

Toolbar Icons

Status Bar Prompts

F1 Key

Scroll Bars

Accelerator Keys

Menu Bar

Dialog Boxes

Recovering from Errors

Error Messages