Administrator Owned Files Owned by Administrators Group

 Last reviewed: May 7, 1997
Article ID: Q101768
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1

If you take ownership of an object (a file, directory, Registry node, and so on) from an account that belongs to the Administrators group, the object is not actually owned by your specific account name, but by the Administrators group. This is the case to ease the burden of several administrators administering a single machine.

Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords : kbnetwork ntnetserv ntsecurity
Version : 3.1
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: May 7, 1997
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