Short post while I get my stuff together to begin posting a series of posts on one topic.
So, the strange issue of Access Control Lists (ACLs) being reset seemingly randomly on a file. Now, if this file happens to be used on a website, those ACL resets might interfere with the operation of the website, which was the case in my situation.
My scenario was the default.asp file on a website. This file needed to have a couple of ACLs set properly in order to allow access to the needed user groups. However, through the course of about 3 weeks, anywhere between a couple hours and a few days, the ACLs would be reset back to what they were before the user groups were added.
Turned out to be that the owner of the file was set to one of our developers. So, whenever this person would access this file, it would reset the ACL permissions. Why this would happen when the person accessed the file, I don’t know. But if you seem to be having random resets of ACLs on a file, try checking the owner of the file.
