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UI Features

Business Case

The newest version of tiCrypt frontend has introduced new features to the user interface that eliminate the need for the (CLI) Command Line Interface. Now owners or managers of a virtual machine can achieve tasks such as moving files and directories in the VM, creating symbolic links, and changing ownership of a directory or file all in the virtual machine tab.

How to move directories and files

  1. Navigate to the Virtual machine tab and select the VM in which you would like to make changes.
  2. Launch to the VM. Once connected a menu bar will appear with 6 icons. Select the button two from the rightmost red power button that says transfer.
  3. An overlay with two panels will appear. The files and directories that exist in the tiCrypt vault is what appears on the left. On the right is the file tree inside of the VM.
  4. Now users can drag and drop in the VM file tree on the right side.
Transfer directories or files

How to alter permissions on a file or directory

  1. Open the VM file tree as you would in the above steps.
  2. Right-click on the directory or file that you would like to alter.
  3. A modal will appear that requires you to define an owner and a group.
  4. Select whether or not to inherit permissions. If this is selected then any object created inside of the directory in which you are applying the permissions will inherit them.
  5. Select the permissions that you would like to apply to the object and accept.
  6. You can check on the status of the permissions by going to the terminal, going into the directory and running ls -l.
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You can also set a unix based permissions.

Alter permissions of a directory or file
  1. Open the VM file tree as you would in the above steps.
  2. Right-click on the directory or file that you would like to create a symlink for.
  3. A modal will appear that requires you to specify the link name and the path for the symlink.

Share your virtual machine with other users.