Quick question regarding CACLS

[Guest Synapse Syndrome]

I want to find any folders on a drive that the Administrator account may not

be able to access. What CACLS command should I use for this?

 

Cheers

 

ss.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Quick question regarding CACLS

 

 

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk> wrote in message

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>I want to find any folders on a drive that the Administrator account may

>not be able to access. What CACLS command should I use for this?

>

> Cheers

>

> ss.

 

I don't think that a raw cacls command can do this. However, the batch file

below might do the job. It will identify all folders whose ACL does not

include "Administrator" or "Everyone".

01. @echo off

02. set User=Administrator

03. set Target=E:\Backup Folder

04. set Logfile=c:\cacls.txt

05.

06. echo Permission list compiled on %date% at %time% > %Logfile%

07. echo List of folders whose ACL includes neither %User% nor "Everyone" >>

%Logfile%

08. echo. >> %Logfile%

09. echo Compiling the permission list. Please wait . . .

10. for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /s /ad "%Target%"') do (

11. echo Processing "%%a"

12. cacls "%%a" | findstr /i "%User% Everyone" > nul || echo %%a >>

%Logfile%

13. )

14. notepad %Logfile%

 

The batch file works recursively. To speed up its operation, remote the "/s"

switch in Line #10 to make it non-recursive.

[Guest riprap]

Re: Quick question regarding CACLS

 

On Oct 29, 3:12 pm, "Synapse Syndrome" <syna...@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk>

wrote:

> I want to find any folders on a drive that the Administrator account may not

> be able to access.  What CACLS command should I use for this?

>

> Cheers

>

> ss.

 

Hello, Synapse::

As you may already know, "Help & Support > CACLS" yields some

pretty good tutorial-material.

One example: Say the directory you want to modify is "C:\X".

Open a cmd-prompt window. Navigate to the desired folder. Type:

cacls /t /c /g administrators:f

hit Enter.

Good Luck.

riprap