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- From: robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2)
- Subject: Re: NTFS Security - Beware
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.232901.648@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:29:01 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec29.190314.2825@tad.eds.com>
- Distribution: usa
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- In article <1992Dec29.190314.2825@tad.eds.com> trs@tad.eds.com (Tim Steward) writes:
- >It seemed to me that this was pretty insecure, so I decided to modify it.
- >At first, I simply changed the Everyone entry to Read Only. When I logged off
- >and back on again, bad things seemed to happen. I tried to go to the
- >Permissions... window, but got an error dialog saying "Server not available".
- >I poked around some and tried to resolve the issue, but I was locked out of the
- >apps in the Administrative Tools group. I tried to reboot and found that there
- >was a 0x00... bug report. NT wouldn't come up. I had to use OS/2 fdisk to
- >trash the partition in order to recover so that I could reinstall NT (Ouch).
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- Read permission does not grant execute permission. I haven't tried this,
- but I'm not surprised that not much worked when you were finished.
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