It's been so long since I've had to do this, I need a check. I'm doing
something fundamentally wrong, I think.
We use groups to set share/ACLs on folders. I got a request to share a
4th level sub-folder with other employees not in the ACL. So what I
have is:
Folder A1 (shared)
-->>B2
-->>C3
-->> D4 (this is the one I want to allow access to)
Now, the share permissions on A1 is for DevelopmentGroup, and the NTFS
permissions are the same. Those permissions just flow down to B2, C3
and D4 (i.e., normal inheritance).
Now, I'm pretty sure the only way to allow access to only D4, and not
allow access to B2 and C3 or even see files there, is to enable ABE.
But I've never done that, and am leery of enabling it in production,
without a whole more testing and forethought (I shudder to think of
all the help desk calls, if I get something wrong).
Am I correct that only ABE will do what I am thinking of (allow access
only to D4 and hide contents of A1, B2, C3)?
Barring ABE, there's nothing I can do, short of granting a new group
access to D4, and living with the consequences?
Thoughts? At this point, I want to just add the new group to the NTFS
permissions of D4 only, and live with the fact that these new group
members can see everything higher up.
