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NTFS Permissions

Duration: 20 minutes

Individual

🎯 Learning Objective​

The objective of this exercise is:

  • To learn how to create users and user groups.
  • To familiarize yourself with NTFS permissions and understand how they work in a Windows environment.

📜 Instructions​

  • Create a second user on your Windows 11 machine.
  • Log in with the new user to verify that everything works. This will also create their folder C:\Users\<username>.
  • In the Documents folder, create a CFT (capture the flag) folder and a CTF.txt file.
  • Log back in with your main user and try to access the CFT folder and the CTF.txt file.
    • Windows will likely ask you to continue as an administrator, even just to enter the folder C:\Users\<username>.
    • Then note that you have access to all folders. Why?
  • Modify the NTFS permissions of the CFT folder to remove your access. Be careful, you need to disable NTFS permission inheritance.
  • Test that you can still access other folders, but not this one.