EFS assigning a group of users automatically

[Guest]

Hi All,

I have around six directories that I want to protect using EFS. There are a
number of sub directories and around 6500 files.

I want to be able to encrypt the whole lot but make it that a group of users
have both ntfs and EFS permissions to view all the files. The idea is that I
make it so that EFS wise they can all access the files and folders but only
if they have ntfs permissions.

By default if I encrypt the top level folders I dont get the option of
assigning each user, only the person who is doing the encyrpting(in my case
administrator)has automatic efs permissions.

Is there a way of automatically adding these users when encrypting all the
files in one go?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi All,

I have around six directories that I want to protect using EFS. There are a
number of sub directories and around 6500 files.

I want to be able to encrypt the whole lot but make it that a group of users
have both ntfs and EFS permissions to view all the files. The idea is that I
make it so that EFS wise they can all access the files and folders but only
if they have ntfs permissions.

By default if I encrypt the top level folders I dont get the option of
assigning each user, only the person who is doing the encyrpting(in my case
administrator)has automatic efs permissions.

Is there a way of automatically adding these users when encrypting all the
files in one go?

Hi,

No, there is no builtin support for this, unless you program your
own tool that calls the AddUsersToEncryptedFile API.

More in this tread:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the clarification Torgeir.

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robg

Hi,

No, there is no builtin support for this, unless you program your
own tool that calls the AddUsersToEncryptedFile API.

More in this tread:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]



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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting, Porsgrunn Norway
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