Sunday, January 6, 2008

Vista: Creator Owner special identity and public accessible folder

Create a folder: DataStore

Permissions:

Creator Owner has Full Permissions on Subfolders and files.


Authenticated Users has the Create files/write data, Create folders/append data, etc, permissions on This folder only.
Logging on as Lina and create Folders or Files, you will find that only Lina can access them.
Logging on as Jonathan and create Folders or Files, you will find that only Jonathan can access them.
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The Creator Group identity Windows 2000 uses this group to automatically grant access permissions to users who are members of the same group(s) as the creator of a file or a directory.
The Creator Owner identity The person who created the file or the directory is a member of this group. Windows 2000 uses this group to automatically grant access permissions to the creator of a file or directory.