Re: Administrator/Limited User security issues
From: Chad Lingmann (lingmann_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/25/03
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:12:54 -0600
Normally only a user that is a member of the administrators group has the
"take ownership" right. Are you certain that this user is only a member of
the the one limited access group you created? or are you assigning rights
based on username?
"GHS-Apathy" <cel_ss@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ok, heres a run down on how the computer is setup...
>
> im a student at greenwich highschool in 11th grade. in
> the computer graphics classroom that iam in, there are
> multiple computers. only one of them has windows xp at
> the moment, so im trying to figure out how to setup the
> security on that computer so we can set it up on all the
> rest of the computers when XP is put on them.
>
> now on the one computer with windows xp, there will be a
> total of 5 users. 1 admin, and 4 (limited access) users
> with different levels of access to specific programs in
> specific folders. there are 5 different programs, and
> each level of user has a different level of access to each
> program. 3 users might have access to program A while 2
> users have no access at all.
>
> i have setup all the accounts, and created dummy program
> folders for testing the security. so i set permissions
> for all the different users for the programs. everything
> from there works fine, but there is a problem. if i go
> into the user with the lowest level of access, i can still
> goto the security tab and change access for all the other
> users. i do not want anyone to be able to change
> permissions but the admin. the users are only being
> denyed/allowed access to 5 different folders all shared in
> the shared documents folder. the ONLY problem i have is
> that anyone can go in and add/remove and alter the
> permissions for any of the users. i want only the admin
> to have those rights. how do i change it so that no other
> user can change any of the permissions. when i use
> advanced permission editing from the admin account, i set
> it so that the other user is not able to read/change/take
> ownership of the folder. but when i go into the other
> user, i try to view security on the folder and something
> pops up saying that i cant change anything about the
> permissions, but it says that i can "take ownership or
> edit the auditing". so i go in as the limited user, make
> myself the owner and now i can add/change/remove/edit the
> permissions and security. now obviously most people wont
> go this far to try to do all this, but if there is 1
> person that will, then they can screw it up for everyone
> else. how do i prevent this from happening. help me
> again ---GHS-Apathy
>
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