International Business Machines Corporation
Credentials for consent based file access

Abstract:

An approach is disclosed for providing built-in consent permissions for users, groups, processes, and programs accessing a part of a filesystem. The method includes integrating a consent access control into a plurality of files in a filesystem. A first request from a first requestor to access information from a first file in the filesystem is received. A first access policy for the first requestor is determined. The first access policy includes a first selective data conversion. A second request from a second requestor to access information from the first file in the filesystem is received. A second access policy including a second selective data conversion for the second requestor different from the first access policy for the first requestor is determined. An access control mode that enables or inhibits enforcement of the built-in permissions is provided.