Re: NTFS default special permissions

On 2007-08-22 Robert McIntyre wrote:
> On my Windows 2003 servers we create a data partition and format it
> with NTFS.  The default permissions for Users are Read & Execute, List
> Folder Contents, and Read.  This is what we want.  But the Users
> account also gets the special permissions Create Folders\Append Data
> and Create Files\Write Data.
>
> From the articles that I have seen on TechNet, the special permissions
> are not needed if we only want read access.  So why are they there by
> default?  What purpose do they serve?  If we remove the special
> permissions will it cause problems?
>
> The only thing that I could think of is that maybe it is needed to
> create a temporary file when you open a document for reading.

If you remove those ACEs your users will be unable to create files and
folders on that partition. That may cause problems e.g. in cases when
they need to open files with progams like MS Word, because Word creates
temp files in the same directory as the document.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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