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Checking File and Folder Permissions

Get-Acl is a convenient Cmdlet to expose NTFS file and folder settings. For example, to get a list of ownerships for a folder content, do this:

Dir | Get-Acl

To find out which "Identities" (Users or groups) have specific permissions granted, access the Access property of each Acl to see the actual permissions, then group by IdentityReference:

dir | Get-Acl | ForEach-Object { $_.Access  } | Group-Object IdentityReference
Posted Mar 05 2009, 08:00 AM by ps1

Comments

seawheels1 wrote re: Checking File and Folder Permissions
on 03-13-2009 8:46 PM

This one liner in not working for me in powershell v2 ctp3

Get-Acl : Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.

At line:1 char:14

+ dir | Get-Acl <<<<  | ForEach-Object { $_.Access  } | Group-Object IdentityReference

   + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-Acl], UnauthorizedAccessException

   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetAclCommand

seawheels1 wrote re: Checking File and Folder Permissions
on 03-13-2009 9:21 PM

I get it now, it was a permissions issue which is why it threw the error, sorry for being stupid

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