Re: Major Security Problem

From: Kevin K (WMTRP205@NoSpam.com)
Date: 09/18/02 

From: "Kevin K" <WMTRP205@NoSpam.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:50:21 -0400

Read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:
HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions in Windows
XP (Q308418)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308418

NOTE: To set permissions your hard drive must use a NTFS File System. If it
does not , Read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:
HOW TO: Convert a FAT16 or FAT32 Volume to NTFS in Windows XP (Q307881)
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307881 

--
Kevin
Please reply to newsgroup so that all may benefit
"Michael" <mjalt@msn.com> wrote in message
news:11b101c25e8f$c9927c70$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> Hopefully, I'm just missing something really simple.  Win
> XP, Home Edition... even though I password protect one
> user and not another, I am able to go into the account
> WITHOUT a password and access all documents created in
> the password protected user account.  What good is the
> password protection for a user account if I can access
> all the files from an unprotected user account.  I'm sure
> password protecting the second account wouldn't do any
> good either, as I would still be able to login to one of
> the accounts and view all documents created and stored
> under the second account.
>
> Any help or comments in resolving this apparent oversight
> (hopefully mine) would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> to all in advance for your time.
>
> Michael Alt

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