Permanently Changing Windows XP Security Settings?

pnutjam asks: "I have googled and perused several publications seeking an answer but I find no mention of this problem anywhere. I am running applications not designed for a multi-user environment on Windows XP. To allow standard users to run these applications I've modified permissions on files, folders, and registry keys. Whenever a computer with the modifications is rebooted, the permissions revert to their previous settings. It doesn't happen when the users log off, only when the computers are rebooted." When adjusting Windows XP to support such applications, how do you make permission changes so that they survive through a reboot?

Comments

Are you sure you have Local Admin Rights?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Depending on how your users are set up, the default in XP Professional (or at least the Enterprise-level license that my employer uses, YMMV depending on how much your IT department trusts lusers) is for users NOT to have local Admin Rights. Upon rebooting, file permissions would be reset from the Active Directory database- and I'd expect exactly this kind of behavior.

Failing that, I'd have to examine your source, perhaps you aren't actually persisting the ADSI object properly to save to the Active Directory database?

Finally, I agree with previous posters- an Open Source website is no place to ask random support questions for a closed source OS.

Re:Mr. Obscure!

[BrynM]

Or even something as simple as whether or not he un-checked "Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propogate to this object". I've found that XP will seem to let the permissions get changed without un-checking this box, but on re-boot the permissions re-propogate. Well hell! That could be the answer - or not. It doesn't always work that way for some reason.

Maybe that helps... In which case he got what he came looking for no matter how lame we think his question may have been. Maybe we should cut some slack to people that may not know as much as we do... Times up! That's enough slack ;)

VMWare

[Molina the Bofh]

Why don't you try running it in VMWare?

In case you don't know, it will allow you to run a completely virtual machine. You can run Linux, 98, NT, XP, whatever you want, even simultaneously. The nice thing is that you can even take a snapshot and easily restore the whole system to the exact point when you saved it. You can even take a snapshot of a booted system, and when you restore it, it'll already be booted.