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Alfredo Osorio
Asked: 2011-11-29 16:21:21 +0800 CST

icacls granting access to all users on windows 7

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I'm trying to give full access (read, write) to a specific folder to all users on Windows 7. The problem is that I don't know how to do that using icacls.

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  1. Best Answer
    c:\windows\system32\icacls c:\folder /grant "domain\user":(OI)(CI)M
c:\windows\system32\icacls c:\folder /grant "everyone":(OI)(CI)M
c:\windows\system32\icacls c:\folder /grant "Authenticated Users":(OI)(CI)M

    Open command window and type c:\windows\system32\icacls /?

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  2. Only these two answers worked for me:

    In an Administrator Command Prompt:

    C:\Windows\System32>takeown /r /d y /f f:\backup
C:\Windows\System32>icacls f:\backup /t /grant Everyone:(OI)(CI)F

    (OI) is for future files and (CI) for future folders.

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  3. This worked for me:

    Step 1 - Open cmd window with admin privileges

    Step 2 - to take ownership of contents of "picts" directory takeown /f C:\picts* /r

    Step 3 - to change permissions to "everyone" of contents of "picts" directory icacls C:\picts /grant Everyone:F /t

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  4. Open administrator command prompt. And run

    grantAccess.cmd FOLDER_PATH

    where FOLDER_PATH can be:

    • "d:" - for change whole drive
    • "d:\somefolder" - for change folder

    grantAccess.cmd file content is:

    @echo off

rem FOLDER_PATH can be "d:" or "d:\somefolder"

set FOLDER_PATH=%1

echo taking ownership...
takeown /F "%FOLDER_PATH%" /R /D Y /SKIPSL
if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto error

set SUBELEMENTS=/L /T /C
set QUIET=/Q
set USERNAME=*S-1-1-0

echo setting access rights for the root folder
icacls "%FOLDER_PATH%" /inheritance:r /grant:r "%USERNAME%":(OI)(CI)F
if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto error

echo reset access rights for childs
ICACLS "%FOLDER_PATH%\\*" /reset %SUBELEMENTS% %QUIET%
if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto error

echo change owner
icacls "%FOLDER_PATH%" /setowner "%USERNAME%" %SUBELEMENTS% %QUIET%
if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto error

:success
echo SUCCESS!!!
EXIT /B 0
:error
echo ERROR!!!
EXIT /B 1
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