Re: Accidental "Deny" to Everyone

From: David Williams (davidwnh@ncia.net)
Date: 06/01/02 

From: "David Williams" <davidwnh@ncia.net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:25:02 -0400

How much more secure would someone want it? If the administrator couldn't
change something you could really get screwed.Imagine a malicious user
denying the admin access to something critical without a means to change it
back. Now that would be not very secure,eh?

"Kevin Wheeler" <kev_wheeler@hotmail> wrote in message
news:eDLcqCQCCHA.1916@tkmsftngp04...
> Ralph,
>
> Administrator taking ownership is by design. It's there to correct "Oops"
> like the one you did
>
>
> "Ralph" <ralph.carlone@prgx.com> wrote in message
> news:850401c20747$6ae944a0$9ee62ecf@tkmsftngxa05...
> > I figured it out...changing ownership seemed to fix
> > it.....not very secure, eh?
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >I inadvertently have "Deny"ed "Write" rights to a shared
> > >folder for "Everyone" and now I obviously cannot change
> > >anything. I assume that I won't be able to move the data
> > >to another folder, delete the original folder, and then
> > >rename the new one to match the old name. Is there a way
> > >to recover from my stupidity and give myself control
> > back?
> > >The server is Win2k and these are NTFS permission issues.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Ralph
> > >.
> > >
>
>

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