Re: Why does Everyone have Full Control of everthing?
From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/05/04
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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 05:09:42 -0500
1) Does anyone have any idea why my machine is this way? - yes that is the default.
2) Is there anything I can do -- perhaps use some security template or something -- to restore the normal XP permissions. - That is normal.
Every folder in Windows XP does NOT inherit the permissions from the root. There is really no reason to be
afraid of these permissions. If you remove the Everyone group then you need to make sure those that are in
Everyone Group and necessary (like System) are kept or you could disable your system for good. Leave the
permissions alone on the root. It is always safe to increase those with permissions but if you remove permissions
then you stand a good chance of having issues.
-- George Hester _________________________________ "John Brock" <jbrock@panix.com> wrote in message news:cou88q$t3r$1@panix1.panix.com... > I have been using my IBM ThinkCentre with Windows XP Professional > for over a year now, using the personal account created at setup. > That account belongs to the Administrators group of course, and > recently I decided to create a Limited account, for security reasons. > I started to poke around by enabling the Guest account, and was > very startled to discover that it was not really very "limited" at > all, and in fact could delete files from places where I did not > think it should be able to, such as my Mozilla program directory. > > After studying Windows XP Inside Out for a while it became clear > to me that the reason for this was that the Everyone group had Full > Control of the C: drive, and by inheritance everything else (except > my personal profile). I don't think this is right! But the book > warned against tampering with permissions on the system drive, and > directed me to Knowledge Base article Q244600, which has a long > list of default NTFS permissions for Windows 2000. > > I am nervous about trying to reset all the folder permissions by > hand though (especially with settings from Windows 2000), and even > if I did who knows what else is amiss. Beyond that, I would really > like to know what is going on. The book noted that Full Control > by Everyone is what you get when you convert a partition to NTFS, > but this was a new machine with XP SP1 preloaded. > > So basically I have two questions: > > 1) Does anyone have any idea why my machine is this way? > > 2) Is there anything I can do -- perhaps use some security template > or something -- to restore the normal XP permissions. > -- > John Brock > jbrock@panix.com >
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