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Guest S Sainsbury
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I have setup a PKI on a windows 2003 domain.

 

I am testing the key recovery before rolling out PKI to users but am having

difficulty.

 

I encrypted a file called test.txt which was located on a network share

(delegation setup) After encrypting the file I checked the details and it

showed as "Administrator" being set as the recovery agent.

 

I then logged onto the file server where the file resides and attempted to

access it, my assumption being that as I was logging on as administrator who

has been set as the recovery agent I would be able to decrypt the file,

unfortunatly it failed with "access denied".

 

Am I missing something simple here?

 

Any helps greatly appreciated.

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Guest S Sainsbury
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RE: EFS File recovery

 

I managed to resolve this, I re-created the certificate templates and

reissued certificates then it started to work, not sure why it didnt first

time round.

 

"S Sainsbury" wrote:

> I have setup a PKI on a windows 2003 domain.

>

> I am testing the key recovery before rolling out PKI to users but am having

> difficulty.

>

> I encrypted a file called test.txt which was located on a network share

> (delegation setup) After encrypting the file I checked the details and it

> showed as "Administrator" being set as the recovery agent.

>

> I then logged onto the file server where the file resides and attempted to

> access it, my assumption being that as I was logging on as administrator who

> has been set as the recovery agent I would be able to decrypt the file,

> unfortunatly it failed with "access denied".

>

> Am I missing something simple here?

>

> Any helps greatly appreciated.


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