# Inherited Rights and Filters

The Inherited Rights and Filters dialog box enables you to view and set information about trustees and rights. Right-click a trustee to view that trustee's effective rights and properties.

The main part of this dialog box is the list of trustees inherited from the selected item and its parent folders.

For each trustee in the list, there is a set of eight check boxes, one for each right that can be inherited. If a check box is checked, the trustee has that right. To assign or unassign rights, use the check boxes in the dialog box.

To see a list of trustees for subfolders of the currently selected folder, click View Trustees Below Directory. A list of all the users and their rights to each subfolder appears. You can modify or remove rights from this list. Right-click a trustee name to view that trustee's current effective rights, taking into account the Inheritance filter.

The following rights can be set for each trustee:

Read: For a folder, grants the right to open files in the folder and read the contents or run the programs. For a file, grants the right to open and read the file.

Write: For a folder, grants the right to open and change the contents of files in the folder. For a file, grants the right to open and write to the file.

Erase: Grants the right to delete the folder or file.

Create: For a folder, grants the right to create new files and folders in the folder. For a file, grants the right to create a file and to salvage a file after it has been deleted.

Modify: Grants the right to change the attributes or name of the folder or file, but does not grant the right to change its contents. (Changing the contents requires the Write right.)

File Scan: Grants the right to see the folder or file with the DIR or NDIR command.

Access Control: Grants the right to change the trustee assignments and the Inherited Rights Filter of the folder or file.

Supervisor: Grants all rights to the folder or file. The Supervisor right can't be blocked by an Inherited Rights Filter. Users with this right can grant or deny other users rights to the folder or file.

- File rights apply only to the file they are assigned to. The rights can be inherited from the folder that contains the file.

- Folder rights apply not only to the folder but also to the files and folders it contains.