Re: fix fouled up permissions?

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:36:10 -0500

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:23:09 -0800, BFH <BFH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>In a user's home directory, there is a folder that has become unaccessible.
>The permissions for all folders in her home directory should read Admins:Full
>Control and User:Full Control, all inherited from the parent. This one reads
>Admins:Read&Execute (no write, no delete), inherited from the parent (but
>that's not the parent's permissions). Because of this, the user can't read
>the folder, and I can't change the permissions. Is there any way, any
>utility or hack, to override those permissions so I can reset them to the way
>they should be?

An Admin should be able to take ownership and reset the perms.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

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