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initial release—your mileage may vary) lists User Account Management as a

Control Panel applet in Windows. This has never been a thing in Windows.

Most likely, the objectives conflate two separate applets: User Accounts—

which we just covered in detail—and User Account Control. See “Sharing

Resources Securely” later in this chapter for the scoop on the latter.

Authorization Through NTFS

User accounts and passwords provide the foundation for securing a Windows

computer, enabling users to authenticate to log on to a PC. After you’ve

created a user account, you need to determine what the user can do with the

available resources (files, folders, applications, and so on). This authorization

process uses the NT File System (NTFS) as the primary tool.

NTFS Permissions

Every file and folder on an NTFS partition has a list that contains two sets of

data. First, the list details every user and group that has access to that file or

folder. Second, the list specifies the level of access that each user or group

has to that file or folder. The level of access is defined by a set of restrictions

called NTFS permissions. NTFS permissions are rulesets, connected to every

folder and file in your system, that define exactly what any account or group

can or cannot do to the file or folder.

NTFS permissions are quite detailed and powerful. You can, for example,

set up NTFS permissions for a user account to edit a file but not delete it.

You could also configure NTFS permissions to enable any member of a user

group to create a subfolder for a folder. You can even configure a folder so

that one group may be able to read the files but not delete them, modify them,

or even see them in Windows Explorer.

NTFS file and folder permissions are powerful and complicated. Entire

books have been written just on NTFS permissions. Fortunately, the

CompTIA A+ 220-1002 exam tests your understanding of only a few basic

concepts of NTFS permissions: Ownership, Take Ownership permission,

Change permission, folder permissions, and file permissions.

• Ownership When you create a new file or folder on an NTFS

partition, you become the owner of that file or folder. This is called

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