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Changing security styles

You might need to change the security style of a new volume or qtree. Additionally, you might need to accommodate other users; for example, if you had an NTFS qtree and subsequently needed to include UNIX files and users, you could change the security style of that qtree from NTFS to mixed.

Before You Begin

Make sure there are no CIFS users connected to shares on the qtree whose security style you want to change. If there are, you cannot change UNIX security style to mixed or NTFS, and you cannot change NTFS or mixed security style to UNIX.

Considerations

You can set the security style of a volume or qtree. Setting the security style of a volume does not affect the security style of the qtrees contained by that volume. It only affects the security style for the files that are not contained by any qtree (these files are said to be in qtree 0).

Step

  1. Enter the following command:qtree security path {unix | ntfs | mixed}

Examples

To change the security style of /vol/users/docs to Windows NT, use the following command:qtree security /vol/users/docs ntfs

To change the security style of the root directory of the users volume to mixed (so that outside a qtree in the volume, one file can have NTFS security and another file can have UNIX security) use the following command:qtree security /vol/users mixed

After You Finish

If you have quotas in effect on the qtree or volume whose security style you just changed, reinitialize quotas on the volume containing this qtree.

Related tasks
Reinitializing quotas