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Citizen Chin
Asked: 2011-11-30 08:11:26 +0800 CST

Retrieve list of users/groups that have access to a network folder and its subfolders?

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One of our users is requesting a list of the users and groups that have access to two folders on the network, as well as all of the subfolders of both of these folders. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of subfolders. Is there an automated way that I can do this?

windows-server-2003 file-permissions query

3 Answers

  1. I would use get-acl from powershell:

    get-childitem -recurse | where {$_.psiscontainer}|get-acl

    this:

    1. gets the directory list (recursivly)
    2. if it so happens that the item on the pipeline is a container (folder)...
    3. retrieve the ACL list
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  2. cacls.exe should do what you require, its a bit hard to read but that comes with the territory of doing such a task on command line.

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  3. You might also try the SolarWinds tool for this, though it's not great at recursion.

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