Administrator/User security issues

[George Masters [MSFT]]

Generally speaking, two entities can fiddle about with the
permissions on something: an administrator, and the
owner. If you want to set permissions on folders that
only you can change, you need to take ownership of the
folder, and then set permissions as you like. Of course,
any administrator account can change ownership and
permissions as well, but that is a different problem.

You can take ownership of the folder using the "Advanced"
button on the folder properties security tab. Note
the "Owner" tab in the resulting dialog.

If these users are sharing access to these folders, it
doesn't sound like EFS is an appropriate technology for
your problem.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am having a problem with making folders completely
>secure on my computer with Windows XP. There are
>currently 5 users, all with different levels of security
>on specific folders. I tried the encryption route, but
>that didnt work too well so i tried setting permissions
>for all my users from the admin account, but when i went
>into the other accounts, i found that the other users
>could change access levels of the rest of the users, they
>could allow/disallow privlidges on folders. I do not
want
>anyone to be able to change permissions except for the
>admin account. If possible i would like to not allow the
>security tab in the properties of a folder to be
displayed
>at all to anyone except for the admin. How can i prevent
>this from happening....does it have something to do with
>auditing? *HELP*
>.
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