SetACL

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SetACL is a freeware utility for manipulating security descriptors on Microsoft Windows.[1] It used to be available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as a command-line utility and as an ActiveX component, but changed to a freeware license in version 3.0.0.0.

This list of features is taken from the product's web page.[2]

  • Supports the following object types on Windows 2000 and later
  • Manage permissions on local or remote systems in domains or workgroups.
  • Set multiple permissions for multiple users or groups in a single command.
  • Control how permissions are inherited.
  • List, backup and restore permissions.
  • All operations work on a single object or recursively on a directory or registry tree.
  • Set the owner to any user or group.
  • Unicode support.
  • Remove, replace or copy a user or group from an ACL.
  • Fast performance due to time-consuming steps such as recursing a large file system are performed only once.
  • Filter out object names not to be processed.

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