After testing, I concur. I'd removed Creator Owner myself from the higher folders but didn't know that it was "inherited" - i thought Windows just bunged it on any new folder as a default permission.
I stand corrected :-) 2010/1/13 Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > That's because the parent folder has creator/owner permissions and any > newly created folder is inheriting the permission from the parent.. In my > FS where I've removed creator/owner from the parentI don't see this > behavior. > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:20 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I normally just give the groups RWXD, but the Creator Owner privilege >> appears by default on newly created folders. Without removing the ability to >> create folders and/or run subinacl scripts to take ownership, I find >> removing the GUI to change the permissions is the easiest option. >> >> 2010/1/13 Jonathan Link <[email protected]> >> >> Isn't that just obfuscation? I thought the ability to change permissions >>> was granted by the Full Control right. If that's the case, pull >>> Creator/Owner Full control from your file system and reassign permissions >>> accordingly. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:11 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Prevent access to the rshx32.dll file on all your workstations and >>>> servers to Administrators and System only. You can do this with a GPO. The >>>> user can't access the security tab then and can't change permissions. >>>> Unless >>>> they know how to use cacls. You could lock the permissions on that file as >>>> well through Group Policy. >>>> >>>> 2010/1/13 Terri Esham <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> We have a Windows 2008 Domain whereby we control access to folders >>>>> stored on one of the domain controllers through Active Directory >>>>> groups. When a new folder is created on the network file server, we >>>>> grant full permissions to the associated active directory group with >>>>> the >>>>> exception of the ability to set and change permissions. >>>>> >>>>> We just discovered that a user can grant permissions to any folder that >>>>> they create under the primary folder because they are the folder >>>>> owner. Obviously, I can change ownership to the domain admin, but how >>>>> in the world would I keep up with this. I've no idea when a user might >>>>> create a sub folder. I stumbled upon the problem because I found a >>>>> folder whereby a user had granted the everyone group full rights. I >>>>> knew none of the domain admins would do that. After talking with the >>>>> owner of the folder, I found out he's been doing it all along. >>>>> >>>>> Wow! This is a real problem for us because we want to control access >>>>> through groups. This one user had shared a bunch of folders using >>>>> individual names. Plus, he had no clue what he was doing and just >>>>> granted everyone full rights. >>>>> >>>>> How in the world do you guys handle this? Am I missing something? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, Terri >>>>> >>>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put >>>> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not >>>> able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke >>>> such a question." >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into >> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such >> a question." >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
