We have a lot of folders with the following permissions:
PS C:\> icacls.exe C:\Temp\Test
C:\Temp\Test BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
DOMAIN\USER:(OI)(IO)(RX)
DOMAIN\USER:(CI)(RX)
We would like to replace the two permissions from DOMAIN\USER
to one with (OI)(CI)(RX)
.
To achive that, we used icacls.exe /grant:r
. Unfortunately the :r
parameter does not work.
PS C:\> icacls.exe --% C:\Temp\Test /grant:r DOMAIN\USER:(OI)(CI)(RX)
PS C:\> icacls.exe C:\Temp\Test
C:\Temp\Test BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
DOMAIN\USER:(OI)(IO)(RX)
DOMAIN\USER:(CI)(RX)
DOMAIN\USER:(OI)(CI)(F)
As you can see, the permission was added and not replaced.
Is there a way to replace the permissions with icacls.exe
?
cacls.exe
provides the parameter /P
to achieve the replacement (see here).
cacls.exe C:\Temp\Test /E /P DOMAIN\USER:F
This one would work but then I struggled about the special permissions (DOMAIN\USER2:(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)
)
So I wrote some PowerShell code to achieve the same with icacls.exe
.
Before granting the new explicit permission, the old one will be removed with /remove:g
.
$FolderPath = 'C:\Temp\Test'
$NewPermission = @('DOMAIN\USER1:(OI)(CI)(F)', 'DOMAIN\USER2:(OI)(CI)(RX,W)', 'DOMAIN\USER2:(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)')
$IcaclsOutput = icacls.exe "$FolderPath"
$InheritedPermission = @()
$InheritedPermission = foreach ($Line in $IcaclsOutput)
{
#Check if last line
if ($Line -eq '')
{
break
}
#Get inherited permissions
$Permission = ''
$Permission = $Line.Substring($FolderPath.Length + 1, $Line.Length - ($FolderPath.Length + 1))
if ($Permission -notlike '*(I)*')
{
$Permission.Split(':')[0]
}
}
$InheritedPermission = $InheritedPermission | Sort-Object -Unique
#Set new permission
if ($InheritedPermission.Count -ne 0)
{
#Remove granted explicit permissions and add new on
icacls.exe "$FolderPath " /remove:g ($InheritedPermission) /grant:r ($NewPermission)
}
else
{
#Add new one
icacls.exe "$FolderPath " /grant:r ($NewPermission)
}