XP Home and security

[Ed H]

I am the administrator for our computer and I have some kids who have their
own limited user names. Could you give me some info and some reading
material on how secure my data is which is kept in "My Documents" under my
name. Are there any "back-doors" that I need to be concerned about? We have
XP Home version and the computer is formatted as NTFS and my account is
password protected. Thanks very much.

 

[Tumbleweed]

They will all be accessible by default you will need to go into the folder
at the highest level you want to disable access, right click, select
properties then the security tab, and remove users you dont want to have
access.

Or I think (I havent tried this) you can specifically put their user name in
and click 'deny', there isa 'deny' field.

Just try now by logging on as one of the limited users you'll find you can
navigate directly to your docs. Or at least you can on my system, which is
XP Pro I'm not sure if Home is different?

 

[Ed H]

In XP Home version I can not open someone else's "My Documents" folder from
a limited users account, at least not as far as I can see and hence my
question.

 

[techguru100]

Supporting your previous reply, Tumbleweed, the behavior
is by design (as is restricting limited users access to
critical system files and folders), even if the drive is
converted to NTFS using convert.exe (everything else
allows everyone full control)

 

[Alex Nichol]

In XP Home version I can not open someone else's "My Documents" folder from
a limited users account, at least not as far as I can see and hence my
question.

That is the case: The 'Simple File Sharing' on an NTFS disk protects
files under an individual users 'Documents and Settings' from the view
of other users. Users with Admin rights can ultimately get at anything
that is not encrypted with some third party password based encryption