Folder/Drive Permissions

December 23, 2008

Hi,

Ive changed my permissions on a drive. (I:\) The permissions for my

current user are all set to deny. I would like to override these

permissions, however i only want to do this via command line or a batch

file.

If anyone could let me know how this can be done, or if it can be done

at all please let me know.

Mvh

BT.

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btsystems

December 23, 2008

At an elevated command prompt:

ICACLS /?

ICACLS name /save aclfile [/T] [/C]

store the acls for all matching names into aclfile for

later use with /restore.

ICACLS directory [/substitute SidOld SidNew [...]] /restore aclfile [/C]

applies the stored acls to files in directory.

ICACLS name /setowner user [/T] [/C]

changes the owner of all matching names.

ICACLS name /findsid Sid [/T] [/C]

finds all matching names that contain an ACL

explicitly mentioning Sid.

ICACLS name /verify [/T] [/C]

finds all files whose ACL is not in canonical form or whose

lengths are inconsistent with ACE counts.

ICACLS name /resize [/T] [/C] [/L]

changes incorrect recorded lengths of ACLs to true lengths.

ICACLS name /reset [/T] [/C]

replaces acls with default inherited acls for all matching files.

ICACLS name [/grant[:r] Sid:perm[...]]

[/deny Sid:perm [...]]

[/remove[:g|style_emoticons/]] Sid[...]] [/T] [/C]

/grant[:r] Sid:perm grants the specified user access rights. With :r,

the permissions replace any previously granted explicit permissions.

Without :r, the permissions are added to any previously granted

explicit permissions.

/deny Sid:perm explicitly denies the specified user access rights.

An explicit deny ACE is added for the stated permissions and

the same permissions in any explicit grant are removed.

/remove[:[g|d]] Sid removes all occurrences of Sid in the acl. With

:g, it removes all occurrences of granted rights to that Sid. With

style_emoticons/, it removes all occurrences of denied rights to that Sid.

Note:

Sids may be in either numeric or friendly name form. If a numeric

form is given, affix a to the start of the SID.

/T indicates that this operation is performed on all matching

files/directories below the directories specified in the name.

/C indicates that this operation will continue on all file errors.

Error messages will still be displayed.

ICACLS preserves the canonical ordering of ACE entries:

Explicit denials

Explicit grants

Inherited denials

Inherited grants

perm is a permission mask and can be specified in one of two forms:

a sequence of simple rights:

F - full access

M - modify access

RX - read and execute access

R - read-only access

W - write-only access

a comma-separated list in parentheses of specific rights:

D - delete

RC - read control

WDAC - write DAC

WO - write owner

S - synchronize

AS - access system security

MA - maximum allowed

GR - generic read

GW - generic write

GE - generic execute

GA - generic all

RD - read data/list directory

WD - write data/add file

AD - append data/add subdirectory

REA - read extended attributes

WEA - write extended attributes

X - execute/traverse

DC - delete child

RA - read attributes

WA - write attributes

inheritance rights may precede either form and are applied

only to directories:

(OI) - object inherit

(CI) - container inherit

(IO) - inherit only

(NP) - don't propagate inherit

Examples:

icacls c:\windows\ /save AclFile /T

- Will save the ACLs for all files under c:\windows

and its subdirectories to AclFile.

icacls c:\windows\ /restore AclFile

- Will restore the Acls for every file within

AclFile that exists in c:\windows and its subdirectories

icacls file /grant Administrator:(D,WDAC)

- Will grant the user Administrator Delete and Write DAC

permissions to file

icacls file /grant S-1-1-0:(D,WDAC)

- Will grant the user defined by sid S-1-1-0 Delete and

Write DAC permissions to file

"btsystems" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message

news:c19009c121a560d9c075bc3e63921c75@nntp-gateway.com...

>

> Hi,

>

> Ive changed my permissions on a drive. (I:) The permissions for my

> current user are all set to deny. I would like to override these

> permissions, however i only want to do this via command line or a batch

> file.

>

> If anyone could let me know how this can be done, or if it can be done

> at all please let me know.

>

> Mvh

>

> BT.

>

> --

> btsystems

January 26, 2009

If by Sid you are referring to some sort of session ID for whatever

username I'm logged in as, I got that part. How would I go about

finding out my Sid, though?

Also, I was a Netware and early Windows NT/2000 systems admin for a

medium-sized company and have played around a bit with the later XP

server administrative section, and all were (if not GUI, which I don't

mind), easy to understand and if you understood the canonical form, not

hard to implement. I was taught to always do everything by groups, such

that a group was made for even a temp access by one user. That way you

could copy the group if as a template if you needed to provide access

for others in such a same way.

In any event, why on earth, when this is just one computer sitting on

my desk with no network and no one but myself to do anything on God's

green earth I want to it, does MS put in all this "rights" crap and not

let me at least be "admin" on the computer, if not the domain (a domain

of 1 here), or let me see it like Unix/Novell as a cmd line item that I

can change as root ? Where the #@# is my "I'm not on a network, I

don't have a network, I don't give a rat's butt about rights, just make

me root and shut the @#@#$ up" button?. I paid for the software, the

computer and if it breaks or gets a cold, you can say you warned me or

something, but so far I still get viruses, rootkits, malware, etc. and

also have to put up with user rights and inheritance, etc, on one

single little bitty computer with no way to understandably force

propogage down rights.

Keep the system files safe and deny access - ok, I'll go along with

that, if you can assure me that by keeping me out I'll never have to do

an "sfc" and read a 10mb test logfile again. I'm apparently not the one

screwing up my system from time to time, so cutting me out is just

cutting out the only one who can fix things.

If, by chance, someone finds a way to override all this b s for

non-wireless home or SOHO's without a dedicated server domain, or even

more to the point, the chap like myself who might eventually run Win

2000 (MS's most stable server) on an old pc as a file and print server

and maybe run an HTPC off that same 4-port hub (with a port to spare)

and is the ONLY user on the machine, I'll pay them another $400 or so

per machine license to shut this crap off and let me have control over

my own damn machine.

(Sorry, had to get that off my chest... expletives were actually held

back and only used where I thought a definitive point had to be

punctuated accordingly)

Isn't that why we have XP Home and XP Enterprise (or Professional, or

whatever they call it today)?

Gads...

So, go over it 100 times again so I'll understand... I want to move a

directory and cannot due to this ... stuff ... How do I overrride the

files and directories ACL's and mass de-inherit them? Or do I need to

go to secpol and take away all rights of all other groups, including

SYSTEM (which I know you won't let me do)?

I think I'm going to load Ubuntu up and just do it from there. Linux

is hard for me to understand but at least I can get it to work if I read

the (man) files for a few weeks.

Might also dig out my Win 2000 disk and see how much I've lost and what

I'll lost by (ostensibly) downgrading.

Someone please kick someone's butt way up in the "I'm a billionaire MS

manager" club.

Shawn Harvey (not afraid to post his name)

sparkinark@yahoo.com

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sparkinark

January 26, 2009

Activate the real Administrator account and use that. It doesn't

have any UAC features.

"sparkinark" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message

news:01ad803236f06d79df8a14969b12d55d@nntp-gateway.com...

>

> If by Sid you are referring to some sort of session ID for whatever

> username I'm logged in as, I got that part. How would I go about

> finding out my Sid, though?

>

> Also, I was a Netware and early Windows NT/2000 systems admin for a

> medium-sized company and have played around a bit with the later XP

> server administrative section, and all were (if not GUI, which I don't

> mind), easy to understand and if you understood the canonical form, not

> hard to implement. I was taught to always do everything by groups, such

> that a group was made for even a temp access by one user. That way you

> could copy the group if as a template if you needed to provide access

> for others in such a same way.

>

> In any event, why on earth, when this is just one computer sitting on

> my desk with no network and no one but myself to do anything on God's

> green earth I want to it, does MS put in all this "rights" crap and not

> let me at least be "admin" on the computer, if not the domain (a domain

> of 1 here), or let me see it like Unix/Novell as a cmd line item that I

> can change as root ? Where the #@# is my "I'm not on a network, I

> don't have a network, I don't give a rat's butt about rights, just make

> me root and shut the @#@#$ up" button?. I paid for the software, the

> computer and if it breaks or gets a cold, you can say you warned me or

> something, but so far I still get viruses, rootkits, malware, etc. and

> also have to put up with user rights and inheritance, etc, on one

> single little bitty computer with no way to understandably force

> propogage down rights.

>

> Keep the system files safe and deny access - ok, I'll go along with

> that, if you can assure me that by keeping me out I'll never have to do

> an "sfc" and read a 10mb test logfile again. I'm apparently not the one

> screwing up my system from time to time, so cutting me out is just

> cutting out the only one who can fix things.

>

> If, by chance, someone finds a way to override all this b s for

> non-wireless home or SOHO's without a dedicated server domain, or even

> more to the point, the chap like myself who might eventually run Win

> 2000 (MS's most stable server) on an old pc as a file and print server

> and maybe run an HTPC off that same 4-port hub (with a port to spare)

> and is the ONLY user on the machine, I'll pay them another $400 or so

> per machine license to shut this crap off and let me have control over

> my own damn machine.

>

> (Sorry, had to get that off my chest... expletives were actually held

> back and only used where I thought a definitive point had to be

> punctuated accordingly)

>

> Isn't that why we have XP Home and XP Enterprise (or Professional, or

> whatever they call it today)?

>

> Gads...

>

> So, go over it 100 times again so I'll understand... I want to move a

> directory and cannot due to this ... stuff ... How do I overrride the

> files and directories ACL's and mass de-inherit them? Or do I need to

> go to secpol and take away all rights of all other groups, including

> SYSTEM (which I know you won't let me do)?

>

> I think I'm going to load Ubuntu up and just do it from there. Linux

> is hard for me to understand but at least I can get it to work if I read

> the (man) files for a few weeks.

>

> Might also dig out my Win 2000 disk and see how much I've lost and what

> I'll lost by (ostensibly) downgrading.

>

> Someone please kick someone's butt way up in the "I'm a billionaire MS

> manager" club.

>

> Shawn Harvey (not afraid to post his name)

> sparkinark@yahoo.com

>

> --

> sparkinark

January 27, 2009

What is this thing called, SID?

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archiv.../01/224051.aspx

Security Identifiers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379571.aspx

2.4.2 SID

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc...1(PROT.10).aspx

SID Strings

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379602.aspx

SID Structure

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379594.aspx

Well-known security identifiers in Windows operating systems

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/243330