Moving files/folders and inheritance

[acl03]

When moving files/folders (to and from locations on the same volume), it seems that inherited permissions from the old location stay on those folders/files when they go to a new location.

Does anyone else find that weird? Why don't folders reevaluate their location and re-establish the inheritance that should be on that folder, based on it's new location? Or, is there a way to make this happen?





Thanks,
Andrew

 

[monsterjta]

If you COPY: Folders/files will inherit.
If you MOVE: Folder/files will not inherit.

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[58sniper]

That's because when you move files on the same volume, those files don't physically move. Just the pointers to them do. So the files aren't rewritten, like when you copy them or move them to a new volume. Since the files aren't rewritten, they aren't reevaluated for rights inheritance.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[acl03]

Does that mean if a user with rights to 2 different program areas wants to, for example, move a folder from Project A to Project B, they must contact us in IT to redo the security so the Project B users can access it?



Thanks,
Andrew

 

[58sniper]

Depends on whether it's moving within a volume or across volumes.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[acl03]

It'd be within a volume.



Thanks,
Andrew