Re: Win2k Permissions bug

[Frank Heyne <fh () rcs urz tu-dresden de>]

On 8 Jun 2001, at 23:06, Parth Galen wrote:

> The problem seems to manifest itself when using applications that create temp
> files.  As many current software packages do create temp files the network
> security implications are obvious.  

MS Office never was aware of NT permissions, it always assumed you run 
itself on Win9x. This is why you could not harden a NT machine according to 
MS recommendations and have a fully working installation of MS Office on it 
at the same time.

To solve your problem, I see 2 ways:

1. Ask the vendors of application software for fixes for their broken software. 
The problem you report is NOT a problem of W2K, it is a problem of the 
application software! The software creates a new file, deletes the original file, 
and renames the new file to the old one. It should, of course, attach the old 
permissions to the new file. I don't see a way how the os should solve this 
application bug.

2. Put files with different permissions into different folders. This way is 
probably faster ;-)


Frank Heyne