Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Andy
Kurt Franke web.de> writes: > just add the following entries to your /etc/passwd file: > > LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: > NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: > > this will allow you > chown LocalService ... > or the same with NetworkSe

Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Kurt Franke
Andrew Hancock gmail.com> writes: ... something deleted > > Would it suffice to use chown to force ownership back to the strings > "LOCAL SERVICE" and "NETWORK SERVICE"? Or is something deeper > required to ensure complete and proper ownership transferral? > Andrew just add the following entr

Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-02 Thread Andrew Hancock
On a Windows XP system, I was using an administrator account to take ownership of file trees belonging to deleted accounts, with the aim of deleting those file trees. Unfortunately, I issued a recursive chown from "c:\Documents and Settings" rather than "c:\Documents and Settings\DeletedUser". No