If you’ve ever involved in permissions management within your organization, you’ll eventually encounter ‘broken’ permissions. Write: Allows users to add files and subfolders, allows you to write to a file.
Read: Allows users to view the folder and subfolder contents. List folder contents: Permits viewing and listing of files and subfolders as well as executing of files inherited by folders only. Read & execute: Allows users to view and run executable files, including scripts.
Modify: Allows users to read and write of files and subfolders also allows deletion of the folder. In addition, users can change permissions settings for all files and subdirectories.
To see what kind of permissions you will be extending when you share a file or folder:īesides Full Control, Change, and Read that can be set for groups or individually, NTFS offer a few more permission options:įull control: Allows users to read, write, change, and delete files and subfolders. NTFS permissions are used to manage access to the files and folders that are stored in NTFS file systems.