Re: Bad XP problem

From: William R. Walsh (newsgroups1_at_idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:19:25 GMT

Hi!

> If it's NTFS, and the files aren't readable by administrators, then
there's
> no way he can re-create the account that owns them. Even if he creates an
> account with the same name on the same host, it won't have the same
internal
> identifier.

By default I don't think XP makes a user's files and folders readable by any
member of the administrators group. Looking at the permissions settings of
an XP volume on a Win 2K Pro machine seems to back this theory up. What
shows up are long strings of letters and numbers that I believe are a user's
SID. (Pardon me if that's incorrect terminology, but I think it is right...)

In any event, it is easy to "forcibly" change permissions on files in
Windows 2000 and possibly even NT. I don't know that this functionality
exists in XP, and if it does they have moved it.

If you change the file or folder permissions so that "whatever" user level
can read them, the change will be in effect when the XP system is restored
to functionality.

> But I'm fairly sure there are utilities for correcting a lost
administrator
> password. Google for them.

Yep.

William

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