On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:54 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
> We see this problem where people create folders under shared drives, that
> each new folder is owned by the creating user who then has the added rights.
> The solution is some weekly subinacl tasks that re-take ownership of the
> whole fileserver structure back to BUILTIN\Administrators

  Wouldn't it be better to just remove "CREATOR OWNER" from the ACL on
the folder?

  All our shared folders are set so only the group(s) which should
have permission are present.

  The only good use for "CREATOR OWNER" I've found is kludging around
apps that insist on writing to their own program directory.  So grant
users "Create File" on "This folder only", and separately grant
"CREATOR OWNER" "Modify" on "Files only".  Now users can create the
file, but can't touch anything else.

  My biggest beef is that if you move an object within a "drive" on
Windows, Windows does not update the ACL on the object to reflect
different permissions in its new location.  So, for example, when a
file is moved from the QA-only pre-release folder to the whole-company
general-release folder, the file still has permissions for pre-release
and nobody else can read it.  Anyone got a fix for *that*?

-- Ben

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