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Re: Unknown Account
"swasrfa007" <swasrfa007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I was changing some properties of a folder then I saw a Unknown Account
>under
> security permissions.
> It wasnt there before.
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> "Account Unknown (s-1-5-21-592332418-3359817199-588524365-1001)"
At some point, a user account existed on that machine and was given access
to that folder or, if the permissions were inhereted, to a parent folder.
Then the user account was deleted. What you see is the SID ("security
identifier" is, I think, the correct term for the abbreviation -- I've just
called them "SIDs" for years) for the deleted account. The SID of an
account the actual identifier used by Windows. Windows can't use the SID to
look up its symbolic name ("Joe" or "Bob", for instance) because the account
doesn't exist anymore. That's why it says "Account Unknown" just before the
SID.
You can safely delete it from the security permissions for that folder (or,
if the permissions are inherited, you'll have to delete the SID from the
originating parent folder).
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David Dickinson
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