On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can turn on logging to capture ACL changes can’t I?

  You would need to enable "File access" auditing in Audit Policy
(under Security Policy in GPO-land).

  You would then need to create SACLs (Security ACLs, used for auditng
(permissions are DACLs)) on the objects in question (files/folders),
auditing Success for WRITE_DAC.

  That's the theory, anyway.  In practice, NT generates all kinds of
audit events for permissions that were simply requested but never
used, and it turns out that lots of things (including Windows
Explorer) request everything for everything they do.

  Microsoft eventually introduced some separate event IDs for actually
*using* the thing being audited.  I don't remember if that had shown
up by 2003 or not.  And without subcategory audit policies (I'm pretty
sure those are not in 2003) you still get a ton of useless audit
events to slow down the system and fill up the log.

-- Ben

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