purpose for read only setting on folder

[Guest runner7@fastmail.fm]

I was told in a previous post that the "read only" setting on a folder

in Win 2003 is meaningless. This does not make sense to me, since I

doubt it is there for decoration. On the other hand, it seems that

you can read, write, and delete files in such a folder at will. Can

anyone provide some insight on this enigmatic setting? Thanks for any

help.

[Guest vidguide@gmail.com]

Re: purpose for read only setting on folder

 

On Aug 27, 3:23 pm, runn...@fastmail.fm wrote:

> I was told in a previous post that the "read only" setting on a folder

> in Win 2003 is meaningless. This does not make sense to me, since I

> doubt it is there for decoration. On the other hand, it seems that

> you can read, write, and delete files in such a folder at will. Can

> anyone provide some insight on this enigmatic setting? Thanks for any

> help.

 

ownership overrides most permissions. So if you take a user, and give

him read-only access to his own folder, it wont work. Same applies to

admins, admins override folder permissions, so if you're testing as an

admin, you won't see the effect.

 

Make a folder owned by user A read only, and then try to make User B

write to it. You cannot.