Re: write access denied on directories after rebuild

From: Ariel Morg (ariel_at_newsgroups.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:19:05 +0100

Delete the sids that just show up as numbers , they are old sids from your
previous install.
This should return access back to current admin account.

@riel

"lobo" <lobo@bitbucket.nul> skrev i melding
news:11055ukav2qk4f8@corp.supernews.com...
> i have rebuilt my win2k system.
>
> in all partitions except the system partition,
> that is, those partitions not changed by the rebuild,
> most directories are no longer writeable and apparently all directories
will
> not allow to change the security settings.
>
> this is true when i am logged on as Administrator.
>
> on looking at the security settings of any of these directories with
Windows
> Explorer,
> they sometimes have permissions for Everyone,
> then usually a bunch of sids, such as S-1-5-21-1482476501-85245398-725345.
>
>
> i have xcacls, but it fails everywhere with an access denied error.
>
> how do i get privilege to restore permissions to a sane state?
>
> i do not want to have to rebuild these partitions.
>
>
>

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