Hey I was wondering if there was a way, using a batch file to change who a file reports as last modifying it?
Say, person XYZ had modified the file when you go: "dir /s /q" is there a way to manually change that to anything you want, even if it would be nonexistant?

Thanks,Why do you want to do this?
Quote from: contrex on June 07, 2007, 01:09:10 AM

Why do you want to do this?

I apologise in advance if I am second guessing the moderators here, but it is not (I believe) the policy of this board to encourage or facilitate misuse of a school's or employer's IT facilities, and what you are asking definitely falls into that category. "Vandal" would be a better term than "rebel" in my opinion.

Almost anything is "possible", whether it is desirable is another matter.

Quote from: contrex on June 07, 2007, 01:34:03 AM

I apologise in advance if I am second guessing the moderators here, but it is not (I believe) the policy of this board to encourage or facilitate misuse of a school's or employer's IT facilities, and what you are asking definitely falls into that category. "Vandal" would be a better term than "rebel" in my opinion.

Almost anything is "possible", whether it is desirable is another matter.

Would you say you had sufficient knowledge to be able to accomplish the task or not?

Quote from: DeltaSlaya on June 07, 2007, 01:42:13 AM

Quote from: contrex on June 07, 2007, 01:34:03 AM

I apologise in advance if I am second guessing the moderators here, but it is not (I believe) the policy of this board to encourage or facilitate misuse of a school's or employer's IT facilities, and what you are asking definitely falls into that category. "Vandal" would be a better term than "rebel" in my opinion.

Almost anything is "possible", whether it is desirable is another matter.

Would you say you had sufficient knowledge to be able to accomplish the task or not?

I don't see how my knowledge or lack of it is relevant; your tone begins to annoy.

I will go as far as to say this. In general, changing file attributes, ownerships and permissions on a multi user system requires administrator privileges. If you ain't the administrator, it's because the computer owner doesn't want you to be able to do these things. If you seek to gain those privileges without permission, that makes you a hacker, and we don't like them on here.

I might well know how to jemmy open a door or bypass a burglar alarm, but I would be very irresponsible to post a how-to on a web forum.

And yes, I do know how to do what you describe. Part of my job involves protecting a system against such threats, so I am aware of steps that misusers might take.

I'm trying to change neither ownerships or permissions.

Say, person XYZ had modified the file when you go: "dir /s /q" is there a way to manually change that to anything you want, even if it would be nonexistant?

C:\>dir /?
Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.

DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/B] [/C] [/D] [/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/P] [/Q] [/S] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W] [/X] [/4]

[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.

/A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files - Prefix meaning not
/B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).
/C Display the thousand separator in file sizes. This is the
default. Use /-C to disable display of separator.
/D Same as wide but files are list sorted by column.
/L Uses lowercase.
/N New long list format where filenames are on the far right.
/O List by files in sorted order.
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date/time (oldest first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order
/P Pauses after each screenful of information.
/Q Display the owner of the file.
/S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories.
/T Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting
timefield C Creation
A Last Access
W Last Written
/W Uses wide list format.
/X This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file
names. The format is that of /N with the short name inserted
before the long name. If no short name is present, blanks are
displayed in its place.
/4 Displays four-digit years

Also I'm definitely not trying to hack anything