When the recent SMB 2.0 vulnerability was announced, there was some discussion on the Toasters mailing list about whether Data ONTAP was affected. Val Bercovici from NetApp responded that Data ONTAP was not affected by this issue. Today, I discovered that to enable the filer snapshots to be visible within the Previous Versions facility within [...]
Fixed permissions early (6 am) successfully with NetApp fsecurity command. That and the secedit tool made it quick work. Did a little Russinovich-guided analysis of a minidump file created by EMC Networker. Did some more work on UVM::AD module. A number of other accumulated general administration tasks. Wrote this perl one-liner to find the volume [...]
Home directory permissions issues. Found: How to display the security permissions of a file from the filer which mentions the fsecurity command. Also found the white paper Bulk Security Quick Start Guide. Information about the Security Descriptor Definition Language SDDL at MSDN. From a comment on that page, I found Mark Minasi’s newsletter describing the [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont