SetACL

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>This list of features is taken from the product's web page.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<ul><li>Supports the following object types on <a href="/facts/Windows_2000/amJIt9gz">Windows 2000</a> and later
<ul><li><a href="/facts/NTFS/dryNM3BK">NTFS</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_file/FjFH3Ufm">files</a> and <a href="/facts/Directory_(file_systems)/VLtLcEXY">directories</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Windows_Registry/cH9RlHTp">registry keys</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Computer_printer/PnDF2QuF">printers</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Windows_service/qzNquuK6">services</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Shared_resource/tmLvfkwR">network shares</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Windows_Management_Instrumentation/ptLyNUuX">WMI objects</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Manage permissions on local or remote systems in <a href="/facts/Windows_Server_domain/tAzIX31E">domains</a> or <a href="/facts/Workgroup_(Computer_networking)/SqL9DWtQ">workgroups</a>.</li>
<li>Set multiple permissions for multiple users or groups in a single command.</li>
<li>Control how permissions are inherited.</li>
<li>List, backup and restore permissions.</li>
<li>All operations work on a single object or recursively on a directory or registry tree.</li>
<li>Set the owner to any user or group.</li>
<li>Unicode support.</li>
<li>Remove, replace or copy a user or group from an <a href="/facts/Access_control_list/t38J9Vao">ACL</a>.</li>
<li>Fast performance due to time-consuming steps such as recursing a large file system are performed only once.</li>
<li>Filter out object names not to be processed.</li></ul>
<h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
<p>To set 'change' permissions on the directory 'C:\angela' for user 'brian' in domain 'dom1':
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 SetACL.exe -on "C:\angela" -ot file -actn ace
            -ace "n:dom1\brian;p:change"

<p>Remove write and change permission sets from Desktop, replace with 'read and execute' permissions:
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 SetACL.exe -on "\\mycomputer\C$\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop" -ot file 
            -actn ace -ace "n:mycomputer\username;p:write,change;m:revoke"
            -ace "n:mycomputer\username;p:read_ex"

<p>An example of its use from <a href="/facts/AutoIt/jqUDyhly">AutoIt</a> can be found <a href="http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=74626">here</a>.
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<h2 id="short-history">Short history</h2>
<ul><li>March 2001 SetACL program 0.x development begins</li>
<li>December 2002 SetACL program 2.x development begins</li>
<li>April 2003 2.0 beta 1 released</li>
<li>July 2003 2.0 final released</li>
<li>September 2003 2.0.1.0 released – Remove, replace or copy all Access Control Entries (ACEs) belonging to users or groups of a specified <a href="/facts/Windows_Server_domain/tAzIX31E">domain</a>.</li>
<li>January 2004 2.0.2 released – <a href="/facts/ActiveX/xJb7t7Eh">ActiveX</a> support. can be used from any language that supports <a href="/facts/Component_Object_Model/2DtIAufW">COM</a> including <a href="/facts/AutoIt/jqUDyhly">AutoIt</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Basic/7QMXM6fP">Visual Basic</a>, <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>, <a href="/facts/VBScript/tg6VhSCk">VBScript</a>.</li>
<li>May 2008 2.0.3 released – 64-bit support</li>
<li>August 2010 2.1 released – Improved permission listing</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>SetACL Documentation <a href="https://helgeklein.com/setacl/documentation/" target="_blank">https://helgeklein.com/setacl/documentation/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>SetACL Windows permission management <a href="https://helgeklein.com/setacl/" target="_blank">https://helgeklein.com/setacl/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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