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grue155 · 06-02-2009, 06:44 PM

On an XP Pro box, a limited account can change permissions of a file that is owned by that limited account user. Just tried that on a file, and it took that change.

However, SID's are another matter entirely. The SID is the numeric equivalent of the user name (the S-1-stuff-morestuff-yetmorestuff). SIDs are generated by the operating system and are intended to be universally unique. Deleting a user, and then recreating the account with the same user name will produce a different SID, and the recreated account is not able to access the old account. Only in a domain login can you guarantee the same SID across machines, as there is only one SID in the domain and the login authenticates the SID.

In short, in a workgroup environment, you can't get there from here.

06-02-2009, 06:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
grue155 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 240 OS: LAN Herder	Re: Taking ownership of files on remote computer On an XP Pro box, a limited account can change permissions of a file that is owned by that limited account user. Just tried that on a file, and it took that change. However, SID's are another matter entirely. The SID is the numeric equivalent of the user name (the S-1-stuff-morestuff-yetmorestuff). SIDs are generated by the operating system and are intended to be universally unique. Deleting a user, and then recreating the account with the same user name will produce a different SID, and the recreated account is not able to access the old account. Only in a domain login can you guarantee the same SID across machines, as there is only one SID in the domain and the login authenticates the SID. In short, in a workgroup environment, you can't get there from here.