Enabling Secure UNIX Access Permissions

You can enable the secure UNIX access permissions behavior during installation or during a custom package creation using the nEnableFileTypePermissions additional setting.

When secure UNIX access permissions is enabled, you don’t need to manually provide group permissions and other user access permissions during UNIX installations. Instead, the installer automatically applies smart default and secure permissions to all files added during the installation, based on file type.

Note

Enabling secure UNIX access permissions will not work correctly with the following features:

Backup and restore impersonation on UNIX
Commvault end-user command line interface on UNIX

Enabling During Push Installation

You can enable the secure UNIX access permissions behavior during push installations by adding the nEnableFileTypePermissions additional setting to the CommServe computer as shown in the table below.

Note

For instructions on adding the additional setting from the CommCell Console, see Adding or Modifying an Additional Setting.

Property	Value
Name	nEnableFileTypePermissions
Type	INTEGER
Category	UpdateFlags
Values	0 (disable) 1 (enable)

Enabling During Interactive Installation

To enable secure UNIX access permissions during an interactive installation, pass the command line argument -enablefiletypepermissions.

For example: ./cvpkgadd -enablefiletypepermissions

Enabling During Custom Package Creation

To enable secure UNIX access permissions during custom package creation, do one of the following:

Pass the command line argument -enablefiletypepermissions.

For example: ./cvpkgadd -enablefiletypepermissions
Set the InstallFlags/enableFileTypePermissions tag to 1 in the answer file (install.xml). For more information, see Installing a Custom Package on UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh Computers Using the Answer File.