Miscellaneous Security Features

TIBCO MFT Platform Server for UNIX includes two features, documented in the TIBCO® Managed File Transfer Platform Server for UNIX User's Guide, that can limit access to UNIX files: Access Control and CFALIAS. Both of these features are supported for responder transfers only.

ACCESS Control

MFT Platform Server Access Control gives the administrator the ability to control file transfer capabilities for users and nodes. The administrator can restrict the following transfer functions:

CFALIAS

MFT Platform Server File Alias Control gives the administrator the ability to provide an alias for a file based on the information about the initiator. In other words, you can tell the user to define the file name as DOG, and TIBCO MFT Platform Server CFALIAS changes that file name to an actual file name. You can define the following criteria:

Additional criteria can be used to allow a user to supply aliases on a file: