File permissions inherited from one folder persist after the files are moved

[BJC]

Hi,

 

Has anyone experienced this, know if this is a known bug, or if certain configs cause this. I understand this was the design in server 2003 and below but not in anything newer. I'm not sure if we've always had this issue and no ones noticed or if it's started recently.

 

When users move a file on the shared area from one folder to another the file isn't inheriting the new folders permissions. This is on a shared area where the original folder has inherited permissions and the new folder has inheritance disabled and explicit permissions set.

 

This is the same issue as described in this Microsoft article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2560088/file-permissions-inherited-from-one-folder-persist-after-the-files-are

 

However I'm using Server 2012 and windows 10 1803.

 

 

 

Thanks

[TwistedHelixis]

Out of interest, do you get a different result between copying the file and using cut?

[BJC]

Yes copy and paste works fine which I've told them to do for now but if they cut and paste they get the behaviour reported above. Which apparently was by design pre server 2003 but was changed for vista and 2008.The article above shows the old behaviour returned as a bug in 2008 and win 7 which they released a hotfix for but that's no longer available and says it's not needed in newer versions anyway. Only other result I found on the internet with the same behaviour was someone on windows 7/server 2008 but that might have been dfs related which isn't being used on our shared area. I don't think anyone responded to that with a solution anyway.

[bknaggs]

I'm pretty certain what you're seeing is by design NTFS behaviour.

[old_n07]

I'm pretty certain what you're seeing is by design NTFS behaviour.

 

This is correct , copying a file or folder inherits the security permissions of the target folder while moving a file keeps the existing security permissions of the item being moved.

[BJC]

Based on the second paragraph of this article I though that behaviour had changed?

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/320246/inherited-permissions-are-not-automatically-updated-when-you-move-fold

[bknaggs]

The second paragraph under Cause makes it clear that the permissions don't update if a file/folder is moved.

[TwistedHelixis]

Once the file is in the folder you should be able to force the correct security settings on to the file from the security tab