What is the result of disabling inheritance and converting inherited permissions to explicit permissions on an NTFS folder?

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What is the result of disabling inheritance and converting inherited permissions to explicit permissions on an NTFS folder?

In NTFS, permissions can flow down from a parent folder to its children. When you disable inheritance and choose to convert inherited permissions to explicit permissions, the rights that were coming from the parent are written directly on the folder as explicit entries. The folder then stops inheriting from the parent, and the ACL on the folder is now explicit rather than inherited. So the folder retains the same access it had, but you manage those permissions on the folder itself rather than having them come from the parent. This is why the result is that inherited permissions are effectively converted to explicit permissions on the folder, and you handle explicit permissions going forward.

In NTFS, permissions can flow down from a parent folder to its children. When you disable inheritance and choose to convert inherited permissions to explicit permissions, the rights that were coming from the parent are written directly on the folder as explicit entries. The folder then stops inheriting from the parent, and the ACL on the folder is now explicit rather than inherited. So the folder retains the same access it had, but you manage those permissions on the folder itself rather than having them come from the parent. This is why the result is that inherited permissions are effectively converted to explicit permissions on the folder, and you handle explicit permissions going forward.

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