Re: permissions fouled up on user folder

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:17:36 -0700

Then, after doing as Steve has suggested, go back to the
root folder of the user's profile, access the NTFS security
dialog, go into the advanced view, and check to replace
permissions on all subordinate files and folders.
This procedure will reset the directory and its contents
where you had to take ownership (an any others) back into
having permissions set purely by inheritance.
You could achieve the same effect on the directory itself
where ownership was taken, but accessing its NTFS
security dialog, making sure the box to allow inherited
permissions is on, and then removing any explicitly set
values. However, this would remove only this location
where inheritance is interrupted, while the first procedure
would remove them all. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:s5vnd.360317$wV.156817@attbi_s54...
> Logon as administrator and take ownership which will allow you to
> change/enhance permissions. Go to folder
properties/security/advanced/owner
> and select administrators as new owner. Also check the box to replace
owner
> on subcontainers and objects. First I would run Check Disk on the volume
to
> see if any problems are found that it probably can correct. --- Steve
>
>
> "BFH" <BFH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9492008A-A418-4559-96B5-DC3910D8D358@microsoft.com...
> > In a user's home directory, there is a folder that has become
> > unaccessible.
> > The permissions for all folders in her home directory should read
> > Admins:Full
> > Control and User:Full Control, all inherited from the parent.  This one
> > reads
> > Admins:Read&Execute (no write, no delete), inherited from the parent
(but
> > that's not the parent's permissions).  Because of this, the user can't
> > read
> > the folder, and I can't change the permissions.  Is there any way, any
> > utility or hack, to override those permissions so I can reset them to
the
> > way
> > they should be?
>
>

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