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Rob D.
Asked: 2013-11-14 13:38:53 +0800 CST

Restoring NTFS permissions

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I have two large file shares where the following has occurred:

  1. A (currently unknown) administrator took ownership of the share.
  2. The administrator broke inheritance on the share, and removed the inherited permissions.
  3. The administrator granted a security principal modify permissions on the share.

I need to re-enable inheritance on the share to fix the issue, but I cannot do that without taking ownership. I can't take ownership without risk of destroying explicit permissions assigned deeper in the share. Currently, the Owner tab states 'Unable to display current owner.'

Each share is a cifs share on NetApp storage.

Does anyone know of a way to discover who the current owner is in case we can't get the offending party to fess up? If I can get the current owner to switch the owner for me, I think I can avoid the destructive side effects of taking ownership myself. Then I can send that admin to the corner to think about what he or she has done...

windows

1 Answers

  1. If you want to do it in Powershell you can install [Powershell Community Extensions (PSCX)][1] and use their Get-Privilege and Set-Privilege cmdlets.

    $p = Get-Privilege
$p.Enable('SeRestorePrivilege')

    Now you can browse to the problem directory and see who owns it, and even change it.

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