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Techboy
Asked: 2009-08-11 00:42:24 +0800 CST

Is there a way to run chmod on Windows

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Is there a way to run the chmod command on Windows?

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  1. Best Answer

    No, there's no chmod command in Windows.

    Either use Explorer's properties page for the file, or from a command shell use the attrib or cacls commands.

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  2. Installing Cygwin provides a chmod command utility.

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  3. Exactly what do you want to accomplish by using chmod?
    Would you be marking some files as executable?
    Windows system does not support most (all?) of what chmod is used to do.

    You can change read-only and visibility access recursively from the explorer properties.

    I was surprised to see CHMOD-Win
    But, do be careful with what you get from such sites.

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  4. There are some native Win32 ports of Unix commands available. I believe chmod is included, but depending on what you're actually trying to accomplish this might be the wrong tool to use. Perhaps CACLS could be useful (try "cacls" from the command line or search in the windows help).

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  5. On post Win2k OSes one sould use iCalcs instead of the older Calcs.

    If you need to set-up website permissions, you can try logging using an FTP client like filezilla and Chmod permissions from there.

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  6. SUBINACL.EXE

    Is a console application for windows that can set file premissions ( NTFS file premissions ), and like metioned before attrib can set some limited file attributes.

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  7. I was going throu the net to get the exact syntax for the same: Found a few HEre is the icacls.exe alternative to chmod 400

    Step1: icacls.exe "path+key.pem" /reset

    Step2: icacls.exe "path+key.pem" /grant:r "$($env:username):(r)"

    Step3: icacls.exe "path+key.pem" /inheritance:r

    Icacls alternative for chmod in Windows

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  8. In windows 10 powershell I did run the below commands which will be equivalent to chmod

    Note: first change the DIR to the folder where you have your .pem file

    1. icacls.exe key.pem /reset
    2. icacls.exe key.pem /grant:r "$($env:username):(r)"
    3. icacls.exe key.pem /inheritance:r
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  9. Download and install git.

    Then

    Go to the C drive In Program Files folder, you will find the folder named Git, find usr then bin.

    In my case, the location for bin folder was:

    C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin Add this location C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to path variables, in system environment variables.

    Restart cmd.

    Try again

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