Managing Subdirectory Permissions

System

TS 5.5.2
OS W2K SP3

Does anybody have a good insight to managing workarea subdirectory permissions? We are migrating a new site to our TS implementation. The users have setup their subdirectory structure and are now requiring that the permissions be setup and applied to this structure. This process probably should have been the other way around. Anyways, I’ve added all the permission requirements to our submit.cfg file. We were going on the theory that once the permissions were defined in the submit.cfg file, the entire subdirectory structure could be submitted and the permissions would be applied. However, we’re finding that this is true for the files, but not for the subdirectories. The only way we’ve found that the permissions on these subdirectories are updated is by deleting the subdirectory from STAGING and then re-adding/submitting them.

This brings up another interesting problem… does this procedure have to be followed each time a subdirectory permission needs to be updated?

Does anyone else have a good strategy for managing directory permissions?

Adam Stoller

You can adjust the permissions on existing directories within the WORKAREA from the file system level (i.e. chown/chgrp on Unix, Change Permission in Windows Explorer).

I'm not 100% sure - but you **might** be able to accomplish this by simply creating a new workarea after having setup your submit.cfg file the way you want it. I'd suggest basing the workarea off of the INITIAL edition (usually empty) and then do a Get Latest to see if this accomplishes what you desire.

If so - you can compare the two workareas, copy files over from the old to the new and then remove the old workarea (and optionally rename the new workarea)


--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)