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| Author: | Spudgunr [ Mon 08-07-2006 6:53PM ] |
| Post subject: | Oops (windows security/permissions help needed) |
So I was sending my laptop to bestbuy to get fixed and didn't want them snooping through my files so I put them all in one folder and removed the permissions from that folder for the account I had set up for bestbuy. Well, I accidentally also removed my own permissions (as an administrator). Now I cannot view the folder contents, view the permissions, change the permissions, or anything. I booted up in safe mode under Administrator and it still wouldn't let me save permission changes "access is denied". Any way around this? I do have some stuff on there I'd rather not lose. Thanks. |
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| Author: | GenPFault [ Mon 08-07-2006 7:01PM ] |
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Did you try taking ownership of the folder? |
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| Author: | dar9q7 [ Mon 08-07-2006 10:13PM ] |
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afraid theyd find your porn? |
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| Author: | Spudgunr [ Tue 08-08-2006 5:39AM ] |
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Hey, good call. I guess I had removed the owner or didnt have one? I thought I had changed it back to me but I guess not. Oops. Thanks a bunch. If I paid attention more to details I'd have seen that that list isn't a list of owners (it had just me and Administrator), but a list of people who can BECOME owners. |
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| Author: | zkissane [ Tue 08-08-2006 8:36PM ] |
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If you can get your hands on a Linux box with Samba on it, you can share the folder and then smbmount it. Linux doesn't care about NTFS permissions. EDIT: Or I can go ahead and read the rest of the thread to find out that you got it fixed. The fact that you deprived yourself access, plus the fact that it isn't really a barrier, shows that you probably would have been better off encrypting the stuff instead. Google TrueCrypt. |
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| Author: | GenPFault [ Wed 08-09-2006 7:21AM ] |
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zkissane wrote: If you can get your hands on a Linux box with Samba on it, you can share the folder and then smbmount it. Linux doesn't care about NTFS permissions.
EDIT: Or I can go ahead and read the rest of the thread to find out that you got it fixed. The fact that you deprived yourself access, plus the fact that it isn't really a barrier, shows that you probably would have been better off encrypting the stuff instead. Google TrueCrypt. Nothing says "delicious vittles inside!" quite like a 2GB TrueCrypt volume labeled Private Files. TrueCrypt FTW! |
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| Author: | love2mud [ Fri 08-11-2006 9:46AM ] |
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actually if you had made an administrator password when you installed windows and had forgotten that.... that would have been the end of that. and best buy wouldn't be able to go around that either. |
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| Author: | dar9q7 [ Fri 08-11-2006 10:32AM ] |
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ERD Commander... i love it |
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