Re: ACL Checker?

johnsuth_at_nospam.com.au
Date: 07/21/05


Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:03:50 GMT

In <O$g#7dUjFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, "Wm. Scott Miller" <Scott.Miller@spamkillerwvinsurance.gov> writes:
>I've been having issues creating a new account on my Windows XP machine (all
>latest updates installed). The issue was due to a incorrect ACL on a file
>in my windows/system32 directory. I never touched this file directly, so
>I'm thinking some installation did it as part of its install routine (most
>likely overwritting the file and it getting a default set of ACLs). I have
>"Use simple file sharing (Recommended)" turned off. I'm concerned that
>something else is amiss and would like to find it or verify that my ACLs are
>"what they should be". What I'm wondering is if there is a tool that will
>check the ACLs on "expected" files to see if they are correct and/or correct
>incorrectly set ACLs?

Given that you can change ACLs to suit your own requirements, how would any tool know what was "correct"?



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