Re: Security identifiers

From: John Martin (john.martin@runbox.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

From: "John Martin" <john.martin@runbox.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:58:50 -0700

Roger,
  thanks for the post, unfortunately on my system the
workaround you suggested using cacls didnt work,

C:\Documents and Settings>cacls "John Martin" /C /E /T /R
JOHN

....
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\rel_650.pdf
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Research
processed dir: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Restored Files
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Tesseract
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Tesseract.directory
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Test
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\utils
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\vr.exe
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Web Page Wizard.doc
processed dir: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Web Pages
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\Website2.doc
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\wmmbackup.pst
 ACCESS_DENIED: C:\Documents and Settings\John Martin\My
Documents\x.pdf
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is
incorrect.

on all the files it didnt like, I got access denied
messages.

Any other ideas greatfully accepted.

>-----Original Message-----
>Usually you can find a small number of inheritance points
>in the file structure, and remove the SID-style permission
>grant on only those points.
>I have never tried using a SID in place of username in a
>cacls c:\somedir /E /T /R username
>command execution
>When all else fails, just set new permissions from a point
>above your permissions mess and force it to reset
recursively
>the permissions on all dependent subfolders and files.
>--
>Roger Abell
>MVP (Windows Platform) Associate Expert
>The Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"David" <davidboutet@videotron.com> wrote in message
>news:b6d601c20ca2$4002dd40$19ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa01...
>> I did a backup restore from a previous windows xp
>> installation and most everywhere I restore a file, my
>> user "david[DAVID\David]" have been replace by the
>> following security identifier: S-1-5-21- ...
>>
>> I guess that my security identifier corresponding
>> to "david[DAVID\David]" on my previous windows xp
>> installation was different from the one on my present
>> installation and windows saw a conflict and replace this
>> one by S-1-5-21.
>>
>> Does semeone knows what means that security identifier
>> and knows if there is a solution to do an undo on it? If
>> there is no automatic undo, is there a search engine
able
>> to make a search on all files and folders that contains
>> the security identifier?
>
>
>.
>

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