Should I remove Creator owner permissions?
The problem can be solved easily. Simply remove the creator owner permissions. This way only general rules apply to the new subfolder “sensible data”. Users only get the inherited permissions to new subfolders or files and not the additional permissions from the OWNER CREATOR template.
Do I need Creator owner permissions?
Yes remove it. Just have one or two levels of NTFS permissions – Modify (everything but Full Control) and Read Only for those that don’t need to modify anything. Only admins should have full control as although you can take ownership it saves the hassle if they deny someone access.
Who is Creator Owner user?
CREATOR OWNER refers the user who initially created the directories or files on a particular machine however, you may simply add the desired users explicitly that you wish to have access and remove CREATOR OWNER from the permissions. The SYSTEM account is the machine account that most of the Windows services run under.
What does it mean if the owner has no permissions?
The owner has no permissions. Thus, you cannot do anything. Had you not been the owner of the file and a group member then group permissions would apply. -rwxrw—- means the owner has read, write and execute permissions, the group has read and write, and others have no permissions.
Why can I not write even though I have group permissions?
This fails to work without relogin if you’ve just added yourself to the staff group, but you may set the permission only for yourself for the current session. I had an issue when a user could not access the /foo/bar/baz directory even when he had permissions because he did not have an access to the bar directory.
When do group permissions apply to the owner?
Had you not been the owner of the file and a group member then group permissions would apply. -rwxrw—- means the owner has read, write and execute permissions, the group has read and write, and others have no permissions. The permissions you provided give the group ‘groupX’ permissions to read, write and execute the file.
When to use user and group permissions in Linux?
Otherwise, if the file’s owning group is the process’s effective GID or one of the process’s supplementary group ID, then the group permission bits are used. Otherwise, the other permission bits are used. Only one set of rwx bits are ever used. User takes precedence over group which takes precedence over other.