How do NTFS permissions become improperly ordered?
Solution 1:
There is no one definitive way for them to get out of order, it can happen a few different ways. Some that I've run into:
- Making a rights change and hitting cancel cancel OMG cancel in a panic before it gets done applying (kinda bad if you do it at the top of a 4-million file directory tree).
- Command-line utilities (I'm thinking
xcacls, I believe) that didn't respect ordering, you could shoot yourself in the foot easily that way. - Backup utilities that misbehave on restore.
There are probably more!