Prohibiting Container Deletion When Deletion of its Parent Container Contents Is Disabled

The following two security rules set different sets of access rights for
a parent object (in this example, the httpdocs folder on domain
example.com) and its child objects - subfolders and files contained
in the folder. The resulting security configuration will prohibit
deletion of the parent container by a domain user but will allow the
user full control for files and folders contained in the httpdocs
folder.

Security rule entry 1

The following rule sets access rights to files in the httpdocs
folder on domain example.com for the Windows user account named
domainuser1, prohibiting deletion of the folder.

<Entry AccounType="1" Account="domainuser1" SidStr="S-1-5-21-2767697126-2621801917-3613110436-1022" Path="[HTTPD_VHOSTS_D]" SubPath="example.comhttpdocs" AceFlags="ThisObjectOnly" AccessMask="FileNonRemovable" EntryFlags="0x140" Tag="DomainUser" Tag2="" /

Explanation

Because the name domainuser1 is not a standard system account name, it
has to be resolved in the system (hence, AccounType=”1”). The optional
SidStr attribute is defined to improve Plesk stability. The
HTTPD_VHOSTS_D component path in the Path attribute specifies the common
part of the path to the domain root folder where the example.com folder
is located. The SubPath attribute completes the path to the httpdocs
folder to which the rule will be applied. AceFlags=”ThisObjectOnly”
specifies that, according to this rule, an ACE…