Re: SECURITY.NNOV: Windows 2000 system partition weak default permissions

From: Askgaard, Kim (Kim.Askgaard@HP.COM)
Date: 08/06/02 

Date:         Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:07:58 +0200
From: "Askgaard, Kim" <Kim.Askgaard@HP.COM>
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

Re: System partition itself has Everyone/Full Control access permission.

This may be true if the Windows installation is upgraded from a previous
operating system like WinNT. If the system disks on Windows systems are
re-formatted during Windows 2000 setup (i.e. clean-installed
workstations and servers) NTFS permissions will be hardened for the
system partition.

- Kim

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