Re: Operating System User

From: Daniel Lohmann (daniel@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: 01/26/02 

From: Daniel Lohmann <daniel@uni-koblenz.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:01:38 +0100

On 26 Jan 2002 02:56:00 -0800, sreenidhi_iyangar@yahoo.com (Sreenidhi)
wrote:

>Hi
>
>We can share a folder and give permission for "Operating system user"
>only. With this group we can set special permissions like R/W/X...
>Contents of this folder is visible only through some drivers like
>"TWAIN".
>
>What kind of user group is this? I serched in MSDN, but couldnt get
>much info on this. Let me know if you have.

It's the local SYSTEM account, under which most services are running.
SYSTEM has usually full control over the local machine, but no access
to network ressources.

Daniel

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