[windows2000] Re: Private Folders

  • From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:52:30 -0800

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Jim.Walls@xxxxxxx wrote:

| "Brian Hoppe" <bhoppe@...> asked:
|
|>This one kind of has us stumped... We have a client who wants to make
|>some folders private from even the administrator.  There are three
|>owners of the company, and these should be the only people who are able
|>to see these folders.  How can you set up folders in such a way that
|>the administrator can not gain access?  If you set them up with
|>permissions for only those three people, what would prevent the
|>administrator from going in and resetting one of the passwords?  Any
|>helps on this would be much appreciated.
|
| I can't come with any way that the administrator won't be able to access
| them, however I have a solution - encryption.  Encrypt the files with the
| administrator not knowing the encryption key.

Agreed, encryption is pretty much the only way to go in this case.
Personally I'd tell them that if the documents are _that_ sensitive they
shouldn't be on the network at all.

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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service

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