By default, the New Station Wizard assigns the entire station’s File space to category 2 (Admin). A station's config.bog file and config.bog.backup files are not accessible (even by super users) in the station's file
space. If needed, other station files and folders may be hidden from a remote station.
Users typically require that the role assigned to them have operator-level read permission on station file folders, such as ^nav, ^px, ^images, ^html, and so on. However, permissions higher
than an operator-level read on the Admin category should only be assigned to selected users on an as-needed basis. In most situations, creating a new category containing
only the components a user needs to access is a more appropriate solution.
Largely, rights granted to access categories that are used by files and folders are operator-level permissions as follows:
- Files require operator-level read (r) access to view, and operator-level write (rw) access to edit a file (if applicable). For instance, a user with operator-level write and write (rw) access to an .html file can modify it using the Text File Editor in
Workbench.
- Folders (directories) require operator-level read (r) access to list and to copy child files, and operator-level write (rw) access to create new (or delete existing) child files.
A few views of files require admin-level Write (rwRW) permissions to access, such as the Nav File Editor for a Nav file. There are also these special case file permissions:
- The system automatically restricts any system module files to operator-level read (r) access.
- If a user is not a super user, the system denies all access outside of the station's home directory.
- Users need admin-level Read (rwRW) access to see a Supervisor station's
^provisioningNiagara folder (written to by the Supervisor's provisioning mechanism).
- If you have a developer license, your system includes an additional category called NModuleDevFilePermission. This category
grants rwRW permission to access all system modules.