Access rights specify what a user can do in a directory protected by user-level security. The access rights you define for a directory apply to all of its subdirectories. You cannot, however, assign permissions to individual files in Windows 95. (Both Windows NT and NetWare allow you to assign permissions to files.)
For each directory, you can assign read-only, full, or custom access. (Read-only and full access are equivalent to the same values used by Windows for Workgroups with share-level security.) Custom access allows you to further specify exactly what each user or group can do in the directory, as specified in the following list.
File operation | Required permissions |
Read from a closed file | Read files |
See a filename | List files |
Search a directory for files | List files |
Write to a closed file | Write, create, delete, change file attributes |
Run an executable file | Read, list files |
Create and write to a file | Create files |
Copy files from a directory | Read, list files |
Copy files to a directory | Write, create, list files |
Make a new directory | Create files |
Delete a file | Delete files |
Remove a directory | Delete files |
Change directory or file attributes | Change file attributes |
Rename a file or directory | Change file attributes |
Change access rights | Change access control |