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Windows command that displays or modifies discretionary access control lists (DACLs) on specified files, and applies stored DACLs to files in specified directories. Inheritor of the older CACLS command.

Useful links:

  1. iCACLS on technet.
  2. iCACLS on SS64 help pages.
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icacls.exe is not working properly on Windows 10 OS

I am working with installer which invokes icacls.exe to set folder permissions using powershell inorder to remove the "users" permission if already allowed & provides permissions for Admin & IIS users. The script is $folderPermissionList = (Get-Acl…
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Is it possible to replace Chmod with Explorer's properties in windows?

I need to make SSH with PEM file. But i constantly recieve errors from aws about pem file which is not secured enough. I tried to perfom chmod 400, chmod 600 on WSL, and also tried to replace chmod with icacls.exe but none of that worked. I was…
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Remove Special NTFS permission from folder and subfolders

Below code which I have for removing special NTFS permission Foreach($folder in $path) { icacls $folder /inheritance:d Get-ChildItem -Path $folder -Recurse | ?{$_.PSisContainer} | foreach {$subfolder = $_.FullName; icacls $subfolder…
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Deny write to Everyone blocking also read access (icacls)

I'm trying to deny only write access to some folders using: icacls "C:\Temp\otentu\*" /deny Everyone:(OI)(CI)(W) In effect I can't also open subfolders. When I doing this same via UI I can open them. So after running this command when I go…
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How to set full control permission for file and folder on Windows with cmd?

I'm trying this below. Than read, write & execute permission can stop, but file rename I can't stop with this command. CACLS files /e /p {USERNAME}:{PERMISSION} Where, /p : Set new permission /e : Edit permission and kept old permission as it is…
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When settingintegrity levels using icacls command it gives access denied error?

When I am running following command on windows it says access denied. I am running from admin . icacls hello.bat /setintegritylevel high what needs to be done to get this working.
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Windows Security Accounts on different languages - Users, Everyone.. - Icacls

I want to grant full access rights for all users for a specific folder. I already found out how to do it with Icacls: icacls "C:\Program Files (x86)\Foldername" /grant:r Users:(OI)(CI)F /T or icacls "C:\Program Files (x86)\Foldername" /grant:r…
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icacls not working with active directory security group

i'm using icacls to set permissions to a folder for a active directory security group. mkdir "33 Test" && icacls "33 Test" /inheritance:d /grant domain\ACL_Test_RW:(OI)(CI)(X,RD,RA,REA,WD,AD,WA,WEA,DC,RC) domain\ACL_Test_RO:(OI)(CI)(RX) && icacls…
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icacls and removing accidently added permission?

I ran command: icacls . /grant domain\joe1:(RX) But I intended to actually run: icacls /grant domain\joe1:(OI)(CI)(M) I went and ran the icacls /grant domain\joe1:(OI)(CI)(M) Now I a see both when I run icacls…
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Granting permission to domain user not working

I'm converting my code to use icacls and currently following this tutorial: https://ss64.com/nt/icacls.html. On this part, Grant the user jdoe rights to create, edit and delete files in the folder C:\demo\example\, but prevent deletion of the…
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Why is are there still folder permissions after replacing them by an icalcs command?

I use the windows commandline tool icalcs to set access permissions to a folder. (The goal is to create a folder within c:/Programmfiles that can only be accessed by the local system account) Admins should get full permissions, all others…
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How to set TrustedInstaller as owner of cmd.exe?

I currently have to change permissions for all local users on cmd.exe. So far I have taken the ownership of the file and changed the permissions in the way i need it. My problem is, that I cant figure out, how to give the ownership back to…
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ICACLS Setowner to folders only

I need to give user_foo full control in all files and subdirectories in a \directory. user_foo is the owner of the /directory. user_foo has own some subdirectories but not all subdirectories. icacls \directory /grant user_foo:(OI)(CI)F /T /C I…
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iCACLS with variable for username in VBS

Hoping someone can help as I can't quite figure this one out :( I have the following vbs to set permissions to a list of sub folders within a specified directory (C:\test) and based on a specified user account (Test1); Dim intRunError, objShell,…
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FOR /F does not work for files that has spaces in their filenames

I used this command: for /f %i in ('dir /b /s "C:\x\x\x\x\*Cyber-Unit*"') do icacls %i /grant "MetricUsers":(OI)(CI)F But the files (cyber-unit) has their permissions changed only if their parent folder doesn't have space in his foldername.
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