SetACL is a

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for manipulating

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. It used to be available under the

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(LGPL) as a

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and as an

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component, but changed to a

license in version 3.0.0.0.

Features

This list of features is taken from the product's web page.SetACL Windows permission management
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files and

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** network shares ** WMI objects * 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.

Usage

To set 'change' permissions on the directory 'C:\angela' for user 'brian' in domain 'dom1': Remove write and change permission sets from Desktop, replace with 'read and execute' permissions: An example of its use from

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can be foun
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Short history

* March 2001 SetACL program 0.x development begins * December 2002 SetACL program 2.x development begins * April 2003 2.0 beta 1 released * July 2003 2.0 final released * September 2003 2.0.1.0 released – Remove, replace or copy all Access Control Entries (ACEs) belonging to users or groups of a specified

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. * January 2004 2.0.2 released –

support. can be used from any language that supports

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including

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. * May 2008 2.0.3 released – 64-bit support * August 2010 2.1 released – Improved permission listing

References

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