This command lets you set up and run a bulk permission update on a view.
Usage
view bulk-permission-update --id ID --target-path PATH --template-view-id TEMPLATE_ID --template-dir-path TEMPLATE_DIR_PATH [--template-file-path TEMPLATE_FILE_PATH]
Required Parameters
| Specify the ID of the view that exposes the files and directories for which you want to update permissions. |
| Specify a view path where files and directories for which to update permissions reside. |
| Specify a view that exposes a directory and (optionally) a file from which to copy permissions and ownership attributes. This view should be on the same tenant as the view specified on It is strongly recommended that the target view and the template view have view policies with the same security flavor. Running a bulk permission update on a view where the security flavor does not match that of the template view may result in inaccessible or incompatible permissions set. |
| Specify a path to the directory from which to copy permissions and ownership attributes to the directories under |
Options
| Specify a path to the file from which to copy permissions and ownership attributes to the files under If not specified, the attributes are copied from the directory specified on For more information about choosing a template file, see Choosing a Template Directory or File. |
Example
After the following command is run, all directories under /mydir/test on view 7 will have permissions and ownership as of /template on view 1, and all files under /mydir/test on view 7 will have permissions and ownership as of /template.txt on view 1:
vcli: admin> view bulk-permission-update --id 7 --target-path /mydir/test --template-view-id 1 --template-dir-path /template --template-file-path /template.txt