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Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?


> That's not really a goal.  The SYSTEM permissions are kind of useless
> anyway, given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files
> anyway.  I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files
> accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway.

I don't think this is true; see below when running as the system account:

V:\>echo %USERNAME%
BERNS-WINDOWS$
V:\>icacls V:\Test
V:\Test DOMAIN\Administrator:(OI)(CI)(F)
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files
V:\>cd V:\Test
Access is denied.
V:\>

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