File permission propagation

[Guest Chris Hills]

Hi

 

I have a situation in which folders in a tree have supposedly inherited

certain permissions which they should not have. The structure looks like

this:-

 

C:\

Disks\

D1300\

Disk 2\

Partition 2\ [M]

u12345\

 

[M] = mounted partition

 

On the folder u12345\ the following permissions show (Name,Inherited From):-

 

Administrators,Parent Object

SYSTEM,C:\Disks\D1300\Disk 2\Partition 2\

Joe Bloggs,C:\Disks\D1300\Disk 2\Partition 2\

CREATOR OWNER,Parent Object

Users,Parent Object

 

On the folder Partition 2\ the following permissions show

(Name,Inherited From):-

 

CREATOR OWNER,<not inherited>

Domain Admins,<not inherited>

DOM-LS-Group1,<not inherited>

SYSTEM,<not inherited>

 

On the folder Partition 2\ I have made sure that "Allow inheritable

permissions from the parent..." is unselected.

 

The folders underneath Partition 2\ are set as home folders on the

domain and are automatically created. I would like to find out where the

"Users" permission on these folders is being inherited from because as

far as I can tell it should not be there.

 

Regards

 

Chris

[Guest Chris Hills]

Re: File permission propagation

 

Chris Hills wrote:

> Hi

>

> I have a situation in which folders in a tree have supposedly inherited

> certain permissions which they should not have. The structure looks like

> this:-

>

> C:\

> Disks\

> D1300\

> Disk 2\

> Partition 2\ [M]

> u12345\

>

> [M] = mounted partition

>

> On the folder u12345\ the following permissions show (Name,Inherited From):-

>

> Administrators,Parent Object

> SYSTEM,C:\Disks\D1300\Disk 2\Partition 2\

> Joe Bloggs,C:\Disks\D1300\Disk 2\Partition 2\

> CREATOR OWNER,Parent Object

> Users,Parent Object

>

> On the folder Partition 2\ the following permissions show

> (Name,Inherited From):-

>

> CREATOR OWNER,<not inherited>

> Domain Admins,<not inherited>

> DOM-LS-Group1,<not inherited>

> SYSTEM,<not inherited>

>

> On the folder Partition 2\ I have made sure that "Allow inheritable

> permissions from the parent..." is unselected.

>

> The folders underneath Partition 2\ are set as home folders on the

> domain and are automatically created. I would like to find out where the

> "Users" permission on these folders is being inherited from because as

> far as I can tell it should not be there.

 

After looking around, I found out that the partition itself had its own

set of security permissions, which are not the same as those shown on

the folder at the mount point. However, in addition to the "Users"

entry, there was also an entry for "Everyone", but that did not show up

on the folder u12345\. How bizarre. I removed the permission for "Users"

from the partition and I observed that it was no longer inherited.