A Charles Sturt University Tutorial
An Express Technical Document explaining how to change permissions on S:\Research\Research Data\Faulty\vxx\folders, files and subfolders at Charles
Sturt University
File and Folder Permissions
1. Security Permissions: A folder or a file can have permissions granted to it for a particular user or group of users.
a. The user or group of users may have:
i. Full Control: change, delete, rename a file or folder. Give over users or groups access to the file or folder.
ii. Modify: change, delete, rename a file or folder.
iii. Read & Execute: Read the contents of the file or execute/run the file if it is a program.
iv. List folder contents: List all the files in the folder.
v. Read: Read the contents of the file.
vi. Write: Create a new file in the folder.
2. Folder Inheritance: Folder permissions are inherited by all folders or files created below the parent folder, unless you remove the inheritance
property from the sub-folder. How to remove the inheritance property from a folder is explained below under “How to turn inheritance off”.
3. CSU Default Permissions: Research folders and files have a number of default security permissions:
a. SYSTEM: Used by the system storing the files for managing those files.
b. SEC-File-Managers: Division of Information Technology staff responsible for day to day operations of the storage environment.
c. *-SA: The Security Administrators who manage access to folders and files for the Faculty or School
How to give a CSU staff or student access to a folder
Right click on the folder or file on which you want to change permissions and
then click Properties.
The above properties sheet will be displayed
Click on Security
Click on the Edit button.
To add a user click on the Add button. To delete a user click on the user
concerned and click the Remove button, then click OK button.
If you are adding a user the dialogue box above appears. Enter the name of the
user and then click Check Names to make sure you have the correct user.
Click OK to add the user to the security list.
Click in the check boxes to control the type of “security
permissions” the user will get, then click OK button.
How to turn inheritance off (security permissions are applied to subfolders by default unless inheritance is turned
off).
Click on the Security tab of the Properties window, and then
click on the Advanced button.
Click on the Change Permissions button.
As you can see the users have been inherited from the parent folder. Un-tick
“Include inheritable permissions from this objects parent” check box to stop
parent Inheritable permissions to this folder.
If you un-ticked “Include inheritable permissions from this objects
parent” check box in the previous step, the following “Windows
Security” message will pop-up.
If the click on the Add button, the inherited permissions from the parent
folder are converted to explicit permissions on this folder. If you click on
Remove then the users will be removed and you can change the
members of the security list for this folder.