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Myrddin Emrys
Asked: 2012-06-13 10:48:03 +0800 CST

Improved ACL editor for Windows file permissions

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I have recently been doing a lot of updates to our network drive permissions... such as consolidating direct user permissions into group permissions. The built-in ACL editor (Advanced Security Settings dialog) is adequate, but its limitations are frustrating, particularly that it cannot be resized and you cannot look at the list of existing entries at the same time as you are adding a new entry.

Is there an improved ACL editor that can be downloaded to supplement the default one?

windows-server-2008 windows-server-2003 access-control-list file-permissions

2 Answers

  1. If you're doing large-scale changing of permissions, I'd suggest automating it with icacls.exe or the get-acl and set-acl PowerShell cmdlets.

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  2. Best Answer

    Take a look at SetACL Studio. It was designed to be a replacement for Windows ACL Editor. It has an intuitive UI (resizeable, of course!) and is much more powerful than the original. It even has undo.

    [I am the author of SetACL Studio]

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