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| wbafrank 2002-04-10, 9:00 am |
|  And today's poser is ....
Q76. Alison shares a Windows 2000 Professional laptop with several other users in her department. All of the users of the laptop are administrators and have full control permissions to all files on the laptop. Alison has some confidential data on the laptop so she encrypts it using Windows 2000's encrypting file system (EFS). What will the other administrators be able to do to Alison's files? (Choose all that apply)
A. Since the other administrators have full control, they will be able to read Alison's data.
B. Since the other administrators have full control, they will be able to delete Alison's data
C. Since the other administrators have full control, they will be able to change Alison's data
D. Even though the other administrators have full control, they will not be able to do anything to Alison's data.
Good Luck .... see you tomorrow for the answer!! | |
| sharnsharn 2002-04-10, 9:04 am |
| windows 2000 dos'nt allow the sharing of efs they would not be able to do anything | |
| Teck Shark 2002-04-10, 9:19 am |
| B
Encrypting a folder or file does not protect against deletion, and since the other users have full control, they will be able to delete Allison's files. | |
| mrfixit 2002-04-10, 9:27 am |
| B on this one.
Tricky one Frank!
Just beat me Teck Shark! | |
| TxBear 2002-04-10, 9:33 am |
| I'll say B too Frank | |
| cross36 2002-04-10, 9:37 am |
| "B" allowing the right to delete | |
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| NetChild1985 2002-04-10, 10:27 am |
| agree with "B"!!! | |
| dillinger 2002-04-10, 10:52 am |
| Only B on this one. | |
| Pavlov 2002-04-10, 11:20 am |
| Jumping on the B brigade
...focused in on the fact that the other users are administrators, which does give them the right to delete files, but thanks to frank's question just the other day we know that the administrator can't open and read the encrypted file. 
Thanks for the questions wbafrank! | |
| Yeti-GBR1 2002-04-10, 11:23 am |
| D You may want to read all the links:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...nceptsunefs.htm
Users work with encrypted files and folders just as they do with any other files and folders. Encryption is transparent. If the EFS user is the same person that encrypted the file or folder, the system automatically decrypts the file or folder when the user accesses it later. However, an intruder is prevented from accessing any encrypted files or folders.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...tsUnEncrypt.htm
Unless the shared key is held by one of the admins then they will be able to do DIDDLY SQUAT!!!! | |
| Teck Shark 2002-04-10, 11:42 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Yeti-GBR1
D You may want to read all the links:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...nceptsunefs.htm
Users work with encrypted files and folders just as they do with any other files and folders. Encryption is transparent. If the EFS user is the same person that encrypted the file or folder, the system automatically decrypts the file or folder when the user accesses it later. However, an intruder is prevented from accessing any encrypted files or folders.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...tsUnEncrypt.htm
Unless the shared key is held by one of the admins then they will be able to do DIDDLY SQUAT!!!!
An intruder may not be able to access encrypted files, but someone with delete permission, like an administrator, can delete encrypted files.
You may want to check out this link... it gives a better overview of EFS! | |
| mcdoud 2002-04-10, 12:39 pm |
| I agree, I choose B. However, this is ASSUMING that all these users have their own separate account. Otherwise they would have full control. | |
| cyrano duh 2002-04-10, 1:17 pm |
| It can't be "A" because if Alison has encrypted the data only she can open it.
"B" is good because if somebody has the permissions they can delete encrypted data.
"C" is a no-no as you can't change the data if you can't open it - and only Alison can do that.
Well, they can delete data, so "D" is out too.
So I guess it must be "B" Moriarty! Puff Puff (sounds of violin in background etc.). | |
| robertmillar 2002-04-10, 2:21 pm |
| B | |
| IT 1588 2002-04-10, 10:14 pm |
| I'll go for B. | |
| bbraunstein 2002-04-11, 12:14 am |
| Great question! I love the stumpers!
Since everyone is an admin with full control, I will say B.
But tell Alison that she is not very bright storing an encrypted file on this laptop. Even if the other users couldn't read it, they could copy it to a FAT disk and read the contents. Not very secure if I do say so myself.....
BB | |
| calidog 2002-04-11, 5:49 am |
| I would go with B and D. | |
| vwdriver 2002-04-11, 12:40 pm |
| It looks like most of us are in agreement that the other Administrators will be able to delete the file. If anyone still has any doubt, take a look at "overview" under "EFS" in the help file for W2K.
"Encrypting a folder or file does not protect against deletion. Anyone with delete permission can delete encrypted folders or files." |
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