tunnu Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 I am trying out NTFS permissions on myWinXP Professional + SP2 standalone system.I am logged in with Administrator account.I've given Read, List folder contents and Read & Executepermissions to the users group. Also a special permissionCreate files / Write data & Create folders / Append datahas also been given by default. These are the only permissionsgiven to the users group to a folder on D:Now when I login with a user account I can copypaste any file from that folder.Hows that possible? How can a user copy pastea file when hes given read permission only?However I cannot cut paste any file neither renameit nor delete it which is what read permission is meantfor...Plz help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 If someone is given read access, it doesn't stop them from copying the data. By copying the data they are not modifying in any way, by cutting from it they are. You can prevent them from deleting the file, changing its attributes/permissions and writing to it etc. but if you don't want them to copy from it, then you're going to have to use a third party method or prevent read access to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunnu Posted August 27, 2007 Author Share Posted August 27, 2007 Thank you, sir. That solves my curiosity:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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