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→Special File and Folder Permissions
Windows Server 2008 (or to be more exact, NTFS) provides 14 special permission options, each of which may be allowed or denied. The following table lists each of these settings and describes the option in more detail:
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<td>Traverse folder / execute file</td><td>Allows access to folder regardless of whether access is provided to data in folder. Allows execution of a file.</td>
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<td>List folder / read data</td><td>Travserse folder option provides permission to view file and folder names. Read data allows contents of files to be viewed.</td>
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<td>Read attributes</td><td>Allows read-only access to the basic attributes of a file or folder.</td>
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<td>Read extended attributes</td><td>Allows read-only access to extended attributes of a file.</td>
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<td>Create files / write data</td><td>Create files option allows the creation or placement (via move or copy) of files in a folder. Write data allows data in a file to be overwritten (does not permit appending of data).</td>
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<td>Create folders / append data</td><td>Create folders option allows creation of sub-folders in current folder. Append data allows data to be appended to an existing file (file may not be overwritten)</td>
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<td>Write attributes</td><td>Allows the basic attributes of a file or folder to be changed.</td>
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<td>Write extended attributes</td><td>Allows extended attributes of of a file to be changed.</td>
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<td>Delete subfolders and files</td><td>Provides permission to delete any files or sub-folders contained in a folder.</td>
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<td>Delete</td><td>Allows a file or folder to deleted. When deleting a folder, the user or group must have permission to delete any sub-folders or files contained therein.</td>
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