Re: Encrypted File Ownership

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/18/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:44:18 -0700

Are you certain that taking ownership included a reset of the
permissions ? IOW have you verified the NTFS permissions,
since the two give reasonable identical access denied messages.
Have you used the efsinfo utility (from the Support Tools) to
determine for certain the encryption state of the file ? 

--
Roger
"Terr0r" <terr0r@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:671c01c2be4d$05a20a60$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
> I have a file that an ex employee has encrypted. I need
> the contents of this file. I have taken ownership of the
> file as Administrator, but upon trying to veiw the file I
> am prompted with Deny access, user has no rights. It is
> on an XP Pro box. I have tried to de-crypt the file, but
> no luck. File system is NTFS. Anyone have any suggestions
> to get the contents of this file?

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