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What are the effects of changing the security style from NTFS to UNIX?

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  • NAS
  • ONTAP 9

Answer

Previous NTFS permission will no longer apply after changing the security style from NTFS to UNIX.

Additional Information

  • After changing from NTFS to UNIX security style, ONTAP will use the approximate UNIX permissions based on the original NTFS ACL.
  • Internally, the NTFS ACL is retained as long as the UNIX permissions are not updated. If we change back from UNIX to NTFS permissions, files and folders that existed before the first change, and where the unix permissions were not updated, should regain the original NTFS permissions.
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