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- DOCUMENT:Q103106 18-NOV-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Difference Between No Access and Access Not Specified
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SUMMARY
- =======
-
- You can assign permissions associated with an individual user or a
- group account to any directory on an NTFS partition by using the
- Permissions command, which is accessed from the Security menu in File
- Manager.
-
- If you want to deny a user or group access to a directory and all
- files included in that directory, select the No Access setting. If you
- do not want to automatically permit or deny a user or group permission
- to files in that directory, select Access Not Specified setting. (You
- can specify this by selecting Special File Access and then selecting
- the Access Not Specified setting.) Access Not Specified may or may not
- keep a user or group from using a file included in that directory,
- depending on other permissions that protect the file. Selecting Access
- Not Specified not only removes permissions for the user or group from
- the permissions list of each file included in the directory, but it
- also prevents permissions from being given on files later added to the
- directory.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
- ================
-
- Suppose you create a directory called Test, assign Read access to a
- subgroup called Support, and then assign Access Not Specified to the
- Everyone group. Members of the Support group would have Read access to
- all files in Test, but all other members of the Everyone group would
- be denied access to the files in Test. This is because no permissions
- on the directory have been established for members of the Everyone
- group, with the exception of the subgroup called Support. If you
- change the type of access for the Everyone group on the Test directory
- to No Access while maintaining the Read access given to the group
- Support, even members of Support are denied access to the files
- included in the Test directory.
-
- REFERENCES
- ==========
-
- Windows NT Answer Book, by Jim Groves, Microsoft Press, 1993
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 permissions security directory
-
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: scrty
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