Windows list acl recursive

Not something I need to do often but very helpful. Added to the script bank. Thai Pepper. J Jun 1, at pm. Moreira Jun 1, at pm. Great Script! Something that I'll use for auditing. This is the same thing SysInternals AccessEnum has done forever.

But to each his own. Why couldn't you have done this a month ago when i needed it! This will be very useful. Thank you this will get a lot of use. Very useful and I will recommend it! Good job. Thank you for sharing.

Michael R. For example, Administrators, Everyone, Users, etc. For example:. Also, you can prevent a user or group of users from accessing a file or folder using the explicitly deny in a way like this:. To disable the inheritance permissions on the file system object and copy the current access control list explicit permissions , run the command list:. If you need to propagate new permission to all files and subfolders of target folder without using inheritance, use the command:.

In this case, first, make sure that you run a cmd window with elevated rights run as administrator. Quite a common problem: after copying directories between two drives you can lose access permission to folders on a target drive. In this case, you can reset NTFS permissions with icacls. The following command will reset all explicit and inherited permissions for all folders and files on drive E:.

In the Windows versions without long path support, you cannot change the permissions for an object in the tree if the full file path to such an object is longer than characters with the Destination path too long error. In these cases instead of using the following icacls command:. Setting permissions using the least -privilege model and monitoring them regularly is critical to data security in your Windows file system.

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