We'd like to have our admin access cake and eat it too.
Tut! :-)
In other words, what we'd like is to have our NT Administrator access, but have files get created with our respective ownerships, not root's.
How do the rest of you work this issue?
The NT habit of using the LOCALSERVER\Administrators local group as the owner of all files and directories created by an administrative user is a little annoying, albeit somewhat core to the overall NT way of doing business securitywise. Fear not though. As long as you don't mind going through an extra step, I recently put together a little tool that might help you out.
Unbeknownst to most folk, you can do chowns on NT. Everything that ships as native with the operating system would lead you to believe that you can only "Take Ownership" of files on NT, not give ownership away to another account. If you think about it, if this were true, then how would a restore program work? :-)
So.... I'll fire you my "ntchown" tool under separate cover. You'll be my second customer for it. I haven't exactly "tested the living daylights out of it", but I'm pretty confident it works under most scenarios, as it's really very simple. If subsequent testing goes well, and once I'm certain it works on UNICODE file systems (I mean ones that really use UNICODE, like in Korea etc...), I will probably inflict it on our NOW folk for inclusion in the tools section of our site.
If anybody else is up for some informal testing, drop me a note.
Keith