SAN File System includes a configurable list of privileged clients. A privileged client is a client on which root users in UNIX® or users with administrator privileges in Windows® are given those same privileges for the SAN File System global namespace. A root user that is logged in to a privileged UNIX-based client is granted full control over directories, files, and other file system objects that are created by UNIX-based clients. A user with administrator privileges who is logged in to a privileged Windows-based client is granted full control over the folders, files, and other file-system objects that are created by Windows-based clients.
If those same users log in to a client that is not a privileged client, their privileges for the global namespace are reduced to those of "everyone" for Windows users or "other" for UNIX users.
Parent topic: Clients
Parent topic: Planning the client configuration
Related concepts
File permissions