File access under user rights (Unix systems)

As of openFT V12, file access on Unix systems is performed by default under user rights - unlike in earlier versions of openFT. As a result, openFT performs all admission checks and accesses relating to a user's files and directories under the rights of the relevant user, i.e. for admission checks and access attempts, openFT switches from the privileged root context to the user's rights context and then back again.

Switching to the user context has the advantage, for example in the case of mounted NFS directories, that the root ID no longer requires access to the user files since accesses are performed exclusively under the rights of the relevant user.