[OpenAFS] Determining file ownership under Windows...

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:38:48 -0500


Rodney M Dyer <rmdyer@uncc.edu> writes:

> At 01:22 PM 2/10/2004, Jim Rees wrote:
>>Why do you want to know file ownership?  It isn't used for anything, is it?
>
> In general, you want to know who owns files when you are performing
> security audits.  If a file is owned by someone who should not have
> access then something is wrong.  Or, if a person wasn't logged on at
> the time the file was created, but it was created by that persons id.

Perhaps your security audit should be run on a different machine?

> Rodney

-derek

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