RE: File security (advanced)

From: pauly [MSFT] (pauly_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:45:07 GMT

Hi Scott,

One way is to Encrypt. EFS is built in.

308989 HOW TO: Encrypt a Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308989

307877 HOW TO: Encrypt a File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307877

223316 Best Practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223316

821737 A User Who Has Permissions to Change the Folder Attributes Can Now
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821737

308991 HOW TO: Share Access to an Encrypted File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308991

248723 INFO: Understanding Encrypted Directories
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=248723

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Windows XP Security Homepage:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/security/default.asp

Windows 2000 Security Homepage:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/security/default.asp

Top 10 Windows Newsgroups Security Questions:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/default.asp?url=/technet/newsgro
ups/nodepages/sectop10.asp

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Paul Hayes, MCSE
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
pauly@online.microsoft.com

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| Sender: "Scott" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Subject: File security (advanced)
| Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:56:04 -0800
|
| I have more than one user on my computer. I have disabled
| the simple filesharing folder view feature so that I can
| individually set the access rights to each individual
| file.
|
| I am also able to set those permissions so that the other
| user cannot access the file. However, there seems to be a
| problem. Regardless of what I try, the other user can
| always take ownership of the file, and then from there
| edit the security settings and read the file.
|
| Is there a way for one user to prevent other users of
| that same system from accessing files on a computer?
| Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
|
| Scott H.
|

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