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Introduction to security

File management

The file management subsystem controls all interactions involving files. Users can create, access, edit, and delete files, as well as cause processes to interact with files. The allocation of space to new files and to existing files as they grow in size is handled automatically by the file management subsystem, which also manages free space.

For the enforcement of security, the most important things that the file management subsystem does are

The file management subsystem identifies each file by its inode. The inode of a file on a general purpose filesystem contains the following information:


NOTE: The ACL information is only present if the filesystem is of type sfs or vxfs, and the Access Control List Utilities, an add-on package, is installed. For more information on filesystem types, see ``Managing filesystem types''.

The file management subsystem enforces security by keeping files separate and by guaranteeing that any subject that tries to access a file has the proper authorization.


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