CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

• If an administrator wants to access a folder or file they do not have
permission to access, they may go through the Take Ownership
process.
Take some time to think about these permissions. Why would Microsoft
create them? Think of scenarios where you might want to give a group
Modify permission. Also, you can assign more than one permission. In many
situations, administrators give users both the Read and Write permissions to
files or folders.
Inheritance
Inheritance determines which NTFS permissions any newly introduced files
or subfolders contained in a folder receive. Techs should understand how
inheritance works (see Figure 13-20).
Figure 13-20 What permissions do I get?
The base rule of Windows inheritance is that any new files or folders
placed into a folder automatically get all the NTFS permissions of the parent
folder. So if, for example, you have Read and Execute access to a folder and
someone else copies a file to that folder, you will automatically get Read and