Re: Windows 2000's Everyone permission

From: akomolafe (deji@prontomail.com)
Date: 08/22/01 

Message-ID: <003701c12b3a$956cd640$f701fe0a@commtouch.com>
From: "akomolafe" <deji@prontomail.com>
To: <michael.white@lmscae.com>, "'FOCUS-MS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM'" <FOCUS-MS@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000's Everyone permission
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:45:15 -0700

"leave share perms as they stand"? Which Microsoft document says that?

Deji

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R. White" <michael.white@lmscae.com>
To: "'FOCUS-MS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM'" <FOCUS-MS@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: RE: Windows 2000's Everyone permission

> You have be careful where you make the permissions modifications, share
> perms (sharing tab) and/or NTFS perms (security tab). Mixing the perms
will
> create problems remotely. Microsoft's recommendation is to leave share
> perms as they stand, and modify NTFS perms as you see fit. This covers
> remote and local access without confusing your perms.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
> LMSCADSI
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Brinkley [mailto:damon@betcoinc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:58 AM
> To: 'phoebe'; 'FOCUS-MS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM'
> Subject: RE: Windows 2000's Everyone permission
>
>
> The first thing I do when I install a Windows 2000 OS is to remove the
> permissions Everyone has to everything on the system. I then go back and
> create users and groups and give them permissions as needed. I don't know
> why Microsoft has the default giving the Everyone group those permissions
> but I think they should be removed upon installing for obvious security
> reasons.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phoebe [mailto:phoebe@tollon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:02 AM
> To: 'FOCUS-MS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM'
> Subject: Windows 2000's Everyone permission
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Could someone give me some advice if I remove the permission as below,
>
> - Everyone at root c:\
> - Everyone at c:\winnt\system\*.exe
> - Everyone and Users at c:\winnt\system32\*.cpl
> - Everyone and Users at c:\winnt\system32\*.msc
> - Everyone and Users at c:\winnt\system32\*.msi
>
> But, I will assign "Administrators" and "System" with Full Control to all
> those files which took "Everyone" out.
>
> Please advice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Regards,
> Phoebe
>
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