nfaccess(8) [bsd man page]

NFACCESS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       NFACCESS(8)

NAME

       nfaccess - Add access rights to a set of Notesfiles

SYNOPSIS

       nfaccess access-right topic [ topic ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       Nfaccess simplifies the task of adding an access-right to many notesfiles.  The function is somewhat analagous to that of chmod(1).

       The access-right specifies a user, group or system and the permissions to be granted.  The format is:

		 <access-right> ::= [<type>:]name=<mode>
		 <type>    ::= {User, user, Group, group, System, system}
		 <mode>    ::= {d, r, w, a, n}+

       The type specification can be omitted; when it is omitted, the name is assumed to be a user.  The mode is additive.  A mode of ``rw'' spec-
       ifies read and write.  The ``n'' mode specifies null access.

       The new access right is inserted in each specified notesfiles access list.  If the user/group/system already has an entry, the old entry is
       replaced with the new entry.

       All users are allowed to run this program.  The changes are only applied to notesfiles for which the executing user is a director.

       This program lives in the notesfile utility directory, typically ``/usr/spool/notes/.utilities''.

       To  automatically  add specific access-rights to newly created notesfiles, the file ``/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/access-template'' is use-
       ful.  If it exists, the file contains lines of acces-rights which are added to each notesfile as it is created.	If  several  people  share
       the  administration of the notesfile system, each can be added to the access-lists of newly created notesfiles by placing appropriate lines
       in this file.

EXAMPLES

		 nfaccess essick=drw /usr/spool/notes/*
		 nfaccess group:srg=rw this that other
		 nfaccess user:kolstad=rw mynotes

       In the first example, user `essick' is given director/read/write access to all the notesfiles in  /usr/spool/notes.   Any  permissions  (or
       restrictions) he might have had before are overridden.  The second example gives group `srg' read/write access to notesfiles `this', `that'
       and `other'.  In the final example, user `kolstad' is given read/write access to the notesfile `mynotes'.

BUGS

       Entries can not be removed from the access list with this program.

       Entries can not merely be augmented (``just add write permission'') with this program.

FILES

       /etc/passwd			  for the users name
       /etc/group			  for the users group
       /usr/spool/notes 		  the default notesfile data base

SEE ALSO

       mknf(8), notes(1), nfcomment(3),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

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NFXMIT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 NFXMIT(8)

NAME

       nfxmit, nfrcv - notesfile networking programs

SYNOPSIS

       nfxmit -dsite [ -r ] [ -a ] [ -i ] [ -t date-spec ] [ -f file ] topic [ ... ]

       nfrcv topic fromsystem

DESCRIPTION

       Nfxmit  and nfrcv implement networking of notesfiles.  The nfxmit program packages eligible new articles and sends them to a remote system.
       Nfrcv is the receiving end of this team.

       Nfxmit sends the specified notesfiles to the site specified with the -d option.	The -r option specifies that a request	should	be  queued
       for  the  remote  site  to  transmit updates from its copies of the notesfiles sent.  The -r option is used only if the other site does not
       automatically queue updates of the notesfile.

       Specify -a to have articles which originated in news(1) sent.  News(1)-originated articles will usually reach each system via the news pro-
       gram.

       The  -i option indicates that nfxmit is to send articles to the destination that it normally would not send.  These articles are those that
       were written there or were received at the local site from that particular site.  The -i option is separate from the  timestamp	functions.
       Articles  are  first  selected  on the basis of the time received and criteria for having passed through news or the destination system are
       applied later.

       A timestamp of the last transmission of each notesfile to each system is maintained. This is used for determining the notes to send.  If  a
       different timestamp is desired, use the -t option.  The supplied timestamp is used for this transfer and the stored timestamp is updated.

       Specify	-f  myfile  on	the  command line to have nfxmit read myfile for a list of notesfiles to be sent.  This is useful if the number of
       notesfiles is too numerous to list on a single command line.  The shell meta-characters *, ?, [, and ] are recognized  in  both	the  topic
       parameter and the entries in myfile.

       Nfxmit  uses  uux(I)  to  invoke nfrcv on the remote system in order to process the incoming notes.  Non-uucp connections are supported and
       specified in the file /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how

FILES

       /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how	    specifies connection methods between systems
       /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.alias	    directory containing mapping of local and remote notesfile names
       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/Sy:sysname	    Seqeuncing timestamps for sysname.

SEE ALSO

       news(1), notes(1), nfcomment(3), uucp(1),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
       CONVEX Computer Corporation
       Richardson, TX

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