Stopping login's to Novell server for some users

[tpulley]

How do you stop logins for some users to a certain novell server? Novell 5.1. I only want a few users to log into this server. any ideas?

Thank you

 

[terry712]

what do you mean - you dont want them to authenticate to it or you dont want them to have any access to files on it?

dont give them any rights on it

assuming you have other servers make that their default or dont have a pertition on it (as long as you have more than 3 servers)

 

[tpulley]

So I deny permissions at the sys vol level? Yes there are multiple servers in the network. This one is accounting related. ON NT you can simply deny access to the shares. I am thinking I can change the permissions of the sysvol and remove the everyone group, adding the users I want to grant access. Wouldn't this achieve the same thing?

 

[TheLad]

I would have thought you have to look at your login script first to ensure that there are no drive mapping pointing to this server. If there is, change your login script accordingly.

Standard users should not attach to this server unless there is something somewhere requesting a connection (such as a drive mapping).

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[tpulley]

But they could browse and connect to the server. Unless specific permissions were taken away. That's my thinking. You are right I should check the login script, especially if I make perms changes.

 

[tpulley]

Are there any ramifications to denying the everyone group permissions and then adding the specific users etc?

 

[DrGreen26]

NO, you are exactly right. You can remove the everyone group and only add specific users. However, you probably want to restrict access to the drive that the user data resides on. The SYS colume is kind of important because when a user authenticates, there are specific NETWARE files in the SYS:SYSTEM and other SYS: directories that users need to have access to.

Just remember that unlike Microsoft, Novell is usually locked down so that users just don't have rights. You also have to remember that rights flow down the directory structure so there is a chance that the 'Everyone' may be getting their rights from a higher point in the NDS tree. Its not that hard to figure out, just check the rights to files and directories for the everyone group and you can confirm what is coming from where.

HTH

Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

With more than 10 years experience to share.

 

[tpulley]

Thanks a lot.... It does help...