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Alex
Asked: 2011-04-15 11:33:15 +0800 CST

get-acl syntax problem

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Could someone explain something to me? If I run the command (get-acl .\test.txt) | Select-Object owner, I get 

Owner
-----                                                                              
BUILTIN\Administrators

which is what I was expecting. However, if I run the command (get-acl .\test.txt) | Select-Object Access, I get this:

Access
-----
{System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule,System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule, System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule}

instead of the list of the users/groups who have permissions on that file and what those permissions are. So what am I doing wrong?

powershell

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The Access property contains an array. You can expand it without walking a loop:

    Get-Acl .\test.txt | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Access
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  2. Those objects don't have a pretty string conversion when you're trying to print them, so they spit out their object type.

    Try something along these lines:

    (get-acl .\test.txt) | Select-Object Access | foreach-object { $_.identityreference }
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