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Permissions issues ThomasAJ 05-29-2007
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?VGhvbWFzQUo=?= on May 29, 2007, 1:45 am
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I'm a newbie to W2003.

I want to stop ALL users (except me the Administrator) from even looking at
the contents of a folder.

I set the 'Users' group permissions to Deny/Full Control. This ticks ALL the
deny boxes. Fine.

BUT as the admin guy I also cannot look at the folder. I look at the
folder's permissions for Administrators and the ALLOW column has all the
boxes ticked but in grey. What am I doing wrong?

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Regards
Tom

Posted by Shenan Stanley on May 29, 2007, 3:23 am
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ThomasAJ wrote:
> I'm a newbie to W2003.
>
> I want to stop ALL users (except me the Administrator) from even
> looking at the contents of a folder.
>
> I set the 'Users' group permissions to Deny/Full Control. This
> ticks ALL the deny boxes. Fine.
>
> BUT as the admin guy I also cannot look at the folder. I look at the
> folder's permissions for Administrators and the ALLOW column has
> all the boxes ticked but in grey. What am I doing wrong?

Just eliminate the "users" group from the permissions at all and give
administrators full.
No reason to start diving into the Deny permissions.

In other words - for the folder permissions in questions - the only
users/groups listed at all should be administrators with Allow FULL
permissions and it should be in effect for that folder and all sub-folders.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?ZGltYQ==?= on November 16, 2007, 11:38 am
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Fair enough, but the question remains... why does setting Deny all on the
local Users group affect the local Administrator account? I've got a similar
situation where the Administrator user is not part of Users group, directly
or indirectly, yet applying Deny permissions to the latter affect the former.

Thanks in advance,

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dima

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> ThomasAJ wrote:
> > I'm a newbie to W2003.
> >
> > I want to stop ALL users (except me the Administrator) from even
> > looking at the contents of a folder.
> >
> > I set the 'Users' group permissions to Deny/Full Control. This
> > ticks ALL the deny boxes. Fine.
> >
> > BUT as the admin guy I also cannot look at the folder. I look at the
> > folder's permissions for Administrators and the ALLOW column has
> > all the boxes ticked but in grey. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Just eliminate the "users" group from the permissions at all and give
> administrators full.
> No reason to start diving into the Deny permissions.
>
> In other words - for the folder permissions in questions - the only
> users/groups listed at all should be administrators with Allow FULL
> permissions and it should be in effect for that folder and all sub-folders.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on November 16, 2007, 5:59 pm
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The definition of your Users group likely contains either
Authenticated Users or Interactive or both. Either of those
will make an admin account that has logged in locally a
member of Users.

Roger

> Fair enough, but the question remains... why does setting Deny all on the
> local Users group affect the local Administrator account? I've got a
> similar
> situation where the Administrator user is not part of Users group,
> directly
> or indirectly, yet applying Deny permissions to the latter affect the
> former.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> dima
>
> "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
>
>> ThomasAJ wrote:
>> > I'm a newbie to W2003.
>> >
>> > I want to stop ALL users (except me the Administrator) from even
>> > looking at the contents of a folder.
>> >
>> > I set the 'Users' group permissions to Deny/Full Control. This
>> > ticks ALL the deny boxes. Fine.
>> >
>> > BUT as the admin guy I also cannot look at the folder. I look at the
>> > folder's permissions for Administrators and the ALLOW column has
>> > all the boxes ticked but in grey. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Just eliminate the "users" group from the permissions at all and give
>> administrators full.
>> No reason to start diving into the Deny permissions.
>>
>> In other words - for the folder permissions in questions - the only
>> users/groups listed at all should be administrators with Allow FULL
>> permissions and it should be in effect for that folder and all
>> sub-folders.
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>>
>>



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