Create two separate user identities on your system. Both should be regular, nonadministrative users. (You may use existing regular user identities for this.) Log in as one of the users (we’ll call it “User 1”) and do the following: • Create a folder on the hard drive. Put it in a place that all users can reach. • Set access rights for this folder to allow “execute” or “search” access by the second user (“User 2”), but grant “no read” access. • Create one or two word-processing files inside that computer. Log in as User 2 and answer the following questions about attempts to access the files.
a. Try to display the new folder. What happens?
b. Open the word-processing program. Tell it to open one of User 1’s new files. Instead of browsing through folders to find the file, start from the root of the hard drive and type in the file’s full path name. Describe what happens.
c. Log in as User 1 and remove the “search” or “execute” right from the folder. Log back in as User 2 and again open the word-processing program. Tell the word processor to open the file. Start from the root of the hard drive, and type in the file’s full path name. What happens?
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