hi
Is there a way to prevent someone from taking the ownership of a file? in other words I want to protect a certain file by changing its permission settings, but this protection can be bypassed if someone changed the ownership settings of the file (by using DOS commands for examples)
That's how to take the ownership of the file...but I want to prevent this
thanks aw
if you take ownership and set up permissions correctly you can prevent changes
Set up a standard account with Parental Controls activated. Whoever you want to block from viewing the files will be under control from the Parental Controls.
Basically this depends on what other user accounts are set up on your machine. Any Administrator can take ownership of any file, unless this is explicitly denied - if anyone knows this last part to be wrong, please correct me on this one. So, your choices are - either to limit everyone else's accounts so that they do not belong to the Administrators group, or specifically deny permissions to them.
To deny permissions - right-click on the file -> properties -> security -> advanced -> permissions -> change permissions. There you pick the username of anyone you want to protect the file from and click edit. There you can explicitly deny all kind of permissions, including "take ownership", scroll all the way down for this one.
The way I understand it, the explicitly denied permissions are more powerful than the defaults, so that if you do that, the other person would not be able to take ownership of the file.
That file will never be protected as long as another administrator account is on the machine...
If you want to protect the file from the other users AND they don't have access to an admin account...just set the ownership to your User and set full control permissions to only yourself
I know it can be done by creating a non-admin account but it is unpractical to set another account and put a password to mine just to protect a single file...
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