Re: User access

From: Lil' Dave (spamyourself_at_virus.net)
Date: 08/28/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 06:19:51 -0500

No such availablilty of additional permissionion in Safe Mode using XP
concerning what I'm attempting to do. The NTFS partition is the boot
partition and system partition, the remainder of all partitions on all hard
drives are of the FAT32 variety.
Converting such FAT32 partitions to NTFS would prevent sharing of these on
this multi-boot OS PC. However, it may work on a singular OS (XP) PC, and
would solve one such problem. In such a case, I would like to protect an
image file of the XP partition from user deletion or otherwise. Am using
DriveImage 7.0 off a boot CD for recovery and it recognizes NTFS. Will I be
thwarted from access as the environment is Windows PE? My intentions are to
make to image file accessible for administrators only. The image file is
contained in an NTFS partition on the second partition of the only hard
drive (D: in XP).

"Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:eS6hVmwqFHA.3436@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> If all are partitioned using NTFS then you can use NTFS permissions
> to control what accounts can access which partitions, and in what way
> if at all (but, leave the operating system's partition alone).
> With Home, the most simple way to do this is to log in with a Safe
> Mode boot, as the Security dialog is visible in Safe Mode when you
> right-click into the Properties of NTFS objects.
> Safe Mode requires a log in. If others are able to access Safe Mode
> that mean you have not set a password on the Administrator account
> (which you can do when in Safe Mode or in a regular boot).
>
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message
> news:ugZKwpvqFHA.1256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > XP Home Edition/NTFS. How do I as Adminstrator prevent users from
> accessing
> > partitions other than the system partition on a hard drive? How do I
> > prevent user access regarding 4 other physical hard drives on same PC,
one
> > on local ide, two on add-on PCI card, one on a scsi PCI adapter?. Am
> > familiar with hardware profiles, don't want to use that. Too easy to
> select
> > the default.
> > I can deny access to CD/DVD for users.
> >
> > Is there a way to block the safe mode entry after pressing the F8 key at
> > boot?.
> >
> >
>
>