Permission to Simplify

Permission to Simplify
Mark Burnett, 2005-05-17

Complexity in Microsoft's software does little but hinder people from using their good security features, and the current state of Windows file permissions is a perfect example.

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Permission to Simplify 2005-05-18
Vlad

You are totaly right!
Lots of functionality - and nothing to do with it. This is Microsoft.
The analysis that you made in this article is absolute correct!...

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Permission to Simplify 2005-05-18
Ed

Another problem is the difficulty auditing requested access. You change the permissions and break something, so you go look at the security log to see what you need to do to fix it see an empty log. Oops you forgot to turn on auditing....

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Permission to Simplify 2005-05-18
Anonymous

Bang on, I have felt the same way for a long time. People complain that Unix permissions are too simplistic but NTFS permissions are too complex where is the middle ground?...

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Permission to Simplify 2005-05-19
Anonymous

"my favorite of them all is that there are check boxes for both allow and deny permissions. You cannot check both boxes, but you can uncheck them both, it means that you neither allow nor deny them those permissions, which really means that you deny them"

I don't mean to be pedantic, but there is...

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Permission to Simplify 2005-05-19
Bill

Good article. I have one small correction.

You say "And finally, my favorite of them all is that there are check boxes for both allow and deny permissions. You cannot check both boxes, but you can uncheck them both, it means that you neither allow nor deny them those permissions, which really mea...

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