The Update facility allows Web documents and file environments to be administered from a standard browser. This capability is available to Web administrator and user alike. Availability and capability depends on the authorization environment within the server.
It should be stressed that this is not designed as a full hypertext administration or authoring tool, and for document preparation relies on the editing capabilities of the <TEXTAREA> widget of the user's browser. It does however, allow ad-hoc changes to be made to documents fairly easily, as well as allowing documents to be deleted, and directories to be created and deleted.
Consult the current Update documentation for usage detail.
Here is an example of the interface.
Update Access Permission
Of course, the user must have write (POST/PUT) access to the document or area on the server (i.e. the path) and the server account have file system permission to write into the parent directory.
The server will report ``Insufficient privilege or object protection violation ... /path/document'' if it does not have file system permission to write into a directory.
The following shows an example of setting an ACL to allow the HTTPd server acount to write into a directory. This does not propagate into any subdirectories created beneath it:
$ SET SECURITY directory.DIR - /ACL=(IDENT=HTTP$SERVER,ACCESS=READ+WRITE)
This example shows setting an ACL that will propagate to created subdirectories:
$ SET SECURITY directory.DIR - /ACL=((IDENT=HTTP$SERVER,OPTIONS=DEFAULT,ACCESS=READ+WRITE), - (IDENT=HTTP$SERVER,ACCESS=READ+WRITE))