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Jason Kresowaty
Asked: 2013-03-06 16:52:00 +0800 CST

Generate icacls script of permissions

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I am looking for a utility to which I can specify a directory to be recursively scanned. The utility should generate a batch file consisting of calls to icacls to reproduce the file and directory permissions under the specified path.

The icacls /save command is not suitable for this task particularly because it duplicates inherited permissions unnecessarily and it outputs SIDs instead of friendly account names.

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  1. If I understand you correctly, you want to apply the perms of a directory to it's children? you can use powershell scripts for this. You can recursively scan directorys, and for each directory you can act on it, for example

    Get-ChildItem C:\users\me\desktop -Recurse -Attributes Directory | foreach {Get-Acl $_.FullName | Format-List | Tee-Object C:\acls.list}

    will recurse all directories in my desktop and output the permissions to the console and also to a file called C:\acls.list. You can also change ownership info, apply perms recursively, and pretty much whatever icalcs would do using get-acl and set-acl

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