You have set up a user group named Accounting and have put all employees in the Accounting department in this group, which has been given permission to use the Financial folder on a file server. You are now asked to create a subfolder under Financial named Payroll. Megan, the payroll officer, is the only employee in the Accounting department allowed to access this folder. What is the best way to configure the new share?

Question

a. Assign Megan read/write permissions to the Payroll folder, and explain to your boss that it is not a best practice to give only one employee access to an important folder.

b. Assign Megan read/write permissions to the Payroll folder.

c. Create a new user group named Payroll, put Megan in the group, and assign the group read/write permissions to the Payroll folder.

d. Ask your boss to allow you to put the folder outside of the Financial folder so you can assign a new user group read/write permissions to this folder that will not conflict with the Accounting user group.

Answer 1

a. Assign Megan read/write permissions to the Payroll folder, and explain to your boss that it is not a best practice to give only one employee access to an important folder.