Files Controlling CERN Daemon

Rule file:

informs server about which directory trees are protected, and which are public. Rule file also specifies the protection setup file and process user and group ids.

Protection setup file:

gives valid authentication schemes, sets password and group file names, and other scheme-specific information. May also contains a mask giving access to a certain group (people and/or IP addresses) to an entire tree of documents.

Access Control List (ACL) file:

contains information about which people, groups and IP addresses are allowed to access which files in a single directory.

Password file:

contains the usernames and passwords of people that are known to that server.

Group file:

contains the group declarations (i.e. which users and IP addresses belong to which groups) that can be referenced from the protection setup and ACL files.