الاثنين، 24 نوفمبر 2008

Secure file and folder permissions

-> My Computer
--> Right click on your mouse to C:\
---> Properties
----> General
-----> Disable: Allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching
----> Security
-----> Add
------> Type: Authenticated Users
-------> Press enter
-----> Select: Authenticated Users
------> Allow: Read & Execute, List folder content, Read
-----> Advanced
------> Unselect: Inherent from parent permission entries...
-------> Copy
------> Remove all other users except: Administrator, System and Authenticated Users
-------> Select: Replace permissions entries...
--------> OK
---------> Yes

--> Go to C:\documents and settings\
---> Right click on your mouse to Administrator folder
----> Properties
-----> Security
------> Advanced
-------> Unselect: Inherent from parent permission entries...
--------> Copy
---------> Remove: Authenticated Users
----------> Select: Replace permission entries...
-----------> OK
------------> Yes
---> Right click on your mouse to, one at the time, all other user folders (like "mom", "userX", etc.)
----> Properties
-----> Security
------> Advanced
-------> Unselect: Inherent parent permission entries
--------> Copy
--------> Remove: Authenticated users
---------> Add that users name (like "mom", "userX", etc.) who's folders these are. This will prevent all other users except admins from getting into their folders.
----------> Allow: Full Control
---------> Select: Replace permission entries...
----------> OK
-----------> Yes
--> Go to C:\windows (or if your Windows is installed onto some other directory, then go there)
---> Select "temp" folder
----> Properties
-----> Security
------> Select: Authenticated Users
-------> Allow: Full Control
--> You can also set permissions like this in other partitions and folders. Please be adviced, that if you store something like games in somewhere, users who need to play those games need to have, usually, full control on those folders so that they can save games etc. Same goes if you store other files in those partitions, like music, documents etc. that other people want to not only access, but also save and edit. Then you should give "Authenticated Users" full permissions on those folders. The main thing is, that your personal folders (C:\documents and settings\userX\) are safe from other peoples tampering and so are important system folders (C:\windows\).

-> To encrypt (EFS) the content of directories and prevent all other users (including administrators) from reading the content of files inside (only in XP pro version) the directory (notice: they can still see the file names and alter folder settings)
-> Only use this for YOUR personal directories (like to folders where you keep personal documents etc.), do not use on system, program, etc. directories!
--> Right click on your mouse to the directory you wish to encrypt
---> Properties
----> General
-----> Advanced
------> Enable: Encrypt the contents to secure data (notice: If you are logged in as administrator, this will encrypt the data for administrator account only. To encrypt data for your USER account, please secure you WindowsXP installation, login as user and then start encrypting your folders)


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