NTFSSecurity/Tests/Lab/README.md

# Live tests in a lab

The tests in this folder run the module against a Windows file server with
domain accounts, in an [AutomatedLab](https://automatedlab.org) lab. They cover
the cases that depend on the file server or on the accounts, which the tests in
`Tests` can't cover: those run on one computer, against local folders, with
local and well-known accounts. CI doesn't run the tests in this folder, and
without a lab they skip every test.

## Cases

| Case | Role | What the tests check |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1, [#34][issue-34] | Delegate | `Add-NTFSAccess`, `Remove-NTFSAccess`, `Clear-NTFSAccess`, `Disable-NTFSAccessInheritance`, `Enable-NTFSAccessInheritance`, `Set-NTFSInheritance`, and `Set-NTFSSecurityDescriptor` on share folders that Administrators own and on which a domain group has Full Control, run by a member of that group who isn't an administrator of the file server. They succeed and keep the owner. |
| 2 | Admin, ServerAdmin, Delegate | `Get-NTFSAudit`, `Add-NTFSAudit`, and `Remove-NTFSAudit` on share folders. Over SMB, the file server checks the Security privilege of the account. The administrators of the file server read and change the audit entries; the delegated account gets the errors that the cmdlet pages describe, and the folders stay unchanged. |
| 3 | Admin | `Get-NTFSEffectiveAccess` for a domain account with rights through two nested domain groups and through a local group of the file server. With `-ServerName`, the result includes the local group, without a warning; without it, the client doesn't know that group. With an unreachable server, the cmdlet falls back to the client and warns. |
| 4 | Admin | `Get-NTFSOrphanedAccess` returns the entry of a deleted domain account with its SID, on the folder and as inherited entry on a file in it. |
| Long paths | Admin | `Get-ChildItem2` and `Get-NTFSAccess` with a share path longer than 260 characters. |
| [#108][issue-108] | Admin | `Copy-Item2` and `Move-Item2` with `-WhatIf` onto an existing file on the share write no error. |
| State | Server | After the runs on the client, the file server checks the owners and the audit entries of the folders itself, without the module. |

Case 1 uses two kinds of folders. Before 5.0.0-rc3, the cmdlets wrote back the
owner that Windows returns with a DACL without the auto-inherit flag, and the
file server refused it with error 1307, "This security ID may not be assigned
as the owner of this object". Windows sets that flag whenever it writes a DACL
with `SetNamedSecurityInfo`, so the fixture stores the DACL of one kind of
folders again with `SetFileSecurity`, without the flag, like tools that predate
Windows 2000. `Set-NTFSSecurityDescriptor` wrote the owner on both kinds.

The expected rights of case 3 come from the tokens that the file server and the
client create for the account with a Kerberos S4U logon, the way the Effective
Access tab of the advanced security settings does.

## Roles

| Role | Account | Administrator of the client | Administrator of the file server |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Delegate | `NtfsLiveDelegate`, member of `NtfsLiveDelegates` | Yes | No |
| ServerAdmin | `NtfsLiveServerAdmin`, member of Remote Management Users on the client | No | Yes |
| Admin | `NtfsLiveAdmin` | Yes | Yes |
| Server | The installation account of the lab, on the file server | Yes | Yes |

The script also creates `NtfsLiveSubject`, the account of case 3, which is a
member of `NtfsLiveInner`, a member of `NtfsLiveOuter`, and of the local group
`NtfsLiveLocal` of the file server, and `NtfsLiveOrphan`, which it deletes in
every run.

## Lab

The lab needs a domain controller, a file server, and a client of one domain,
PowerShell 7 and Pester 5.7.1 on the client and the file server, and
remoting with CredSSP from the host, which AutomatedLab sets up. The defaults
use the lab of
[WindowsAccessControl](https://github.com/raandree/WindowsAccessControl), which
`tests/Lab/Deploy-WindowsAccessControlLab.ps1` in that repository deploys:
`F1ADC1` as domain controller, `F1AFile2` as file server, and `F1AFile1` as
client, all in `a.forest1.net`. `-DomainController`, `-FileServer`, and
`-Client` select other machines.

The script adds to the lab:

- the organizational unit `NTFSSecurityLive` with the accounts and groups
- the local group `NtfsLiveLocal` and members of Administrators on the file
  server, and members of Administrators and Remote Management Users on the
  client
- the share `NTFSSecurityLive` on `C:\NTFSSecurityLive` of the file server,
  with a folder for each run
- the folder `C:\NTFSSecurityLab` with the tests on the file server, and with
  the modules and the tests on the client

## Run the tests

In an elevated Windows PowerShell 5.1 session on the Hyper-V host of the lab:

```powershell
.\Tests\Lab\Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -Version 5.0.0-rc2, 5.0.0-rc4 -Confirm:$false
```

The script downloads each version from the PowerShell Gallery, checks the hash
that the gallery publishes, and runs the tests for each version in Windows
PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7. Each version runs in its own process, because
all versions of `NTFSSecurity.dll` have the same assembly version. To test a
build, add `-ModulePath .\NTFSSecurity\bin\Release`; it runs as the version
`local`.

The script sets new random passwords for the accounts in every call and keeps
them in memory only. The tests refuse to run on a computer other than the
client and the file server of the configuration, and on a folder outside the
share.

Remove everything the script added to the lab:

```powershell
.\Tests\Lab\Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -RemoveFixture
```

## Results

Each call writes to a new folder in `$env:TEMP\NTFSSecurityLab\Results`:

- `Summary.md` and `Summary.json`: the counts per version, edition, and role,
  and the failed tests with their messages
- `<run>-<role>.result.json` and `<run>-<role>.log`: the result and the
  error message of each test that ran, and the output of Pester
- `<run>.json`: the configuration of the run
- `<run>-State.json`: the stored owner, group, and DACL, and the SACL of each
  folder after the run

A version before 5.0.0-rc3 fails case 1 with error 1307, a version before
5.0.0-rc4 fails the tests of #108, and a version before 5.0.0-rc5 fails the
test of case 3 with a computer that can't be reached: it returned no access
instead of the result of the client.

## Files

| File | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1` | Prepares the lab, runs the tests, and writes the results; runs on the host. |
| `NTFSSecurity.Live.Tests.ps1` | The tests; run on the client and the file server. |
| `Start-NTFSSecurityLiveTest.ps1` | Runs the tests of one role in a new process. |
| `NTFSSecurity.LabHelpers.ps1` | Reads and writes security descriptors as Windows stores them, and calculates the expected rights. |

[issue-34]: https://github.com/raandree/NTFSSecurity/issues/34
[issue-108]: https://github.com/raandree/NTFSSecurity/issues/108