Hello all..I am trying to figure out a way to "export" and document all permissions that users have on a file server (folders/shares) into a readable format (excel or something)
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
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A few free tools I like
Dumpsec will dump the permissions (I like this one)
http://www.systemtools
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http://technet.microso
Americom also listed some other good tools in his answer here:
http://www.experts-exchang
Thanks
Mike
Hi,
If you want to do it programmatically, You can follow these steps, (My answer is in Win32 context, there must be easier ways in C#)
1. Call GetNamedSecurityInfo API. It will give you DACL. Specify SE_LMSHARE as ObjectType. You'll need to take care of security related issues like impersonation and all otherwise this API will give you Access Denied error.
2. Once you get the DACL, call GetExplicitEntriesFromAcl API to get the list of users with rights.
3. You may get the user in the form of SID (check TrusteeForm member of TRUSTEE structure). You can convert it to the actual user name using LookupAccountSid API. You'll have to implement your own functions for mapping rights values to appropriate strings.
4. Once you have complete data (mostly in string/char*), making it readable is very easy.
Hope this helps...!!!
Cheers,
Milind
The description to get this "streamlined" report was actually already included in http:#a25555671 ...
Several options in dumpsec (attached), either the 2nd or 4th option is going to do the trick for you if you don't want to see file permissions
Thanks
Mike
Dumpsec Options
Business Accounts
Answer for Membership
by: oBdAPosted on 2009-10-12 at 15:35:36ID: 25555671
Well, there's always the good old cacls:
cacls "SomeFolderOrFile"
If you want a more concise list, check this from SystemTools/Somarsoft (my favorite tool):
DumpSec (http://www.systemtools.co
Install the download on an XP machine, uncheck "Hyena"; you can then copy DumpSec.exe and the help file to where you want.
You'll get the most concise report possible when you go to Report > Permission Reports Options, check only "Show Permissions", and set the radio button to "Show directories (but not files) whose permissions differ ...".
Showing the owner will create a lot of entries nobody actually cares about when all you want is an NTFS permission report, and file permissions usually aren't that interesting, either.
Finally save the report as tab-delimited file, and you can import it into Excel.
Then there are these tools from Sysinternals:
AccessEnum (http://technet.microsoft.
AccessChk (http://technet.microsoft.
ShareEnum (http://technet.microsoft.
Or this one from Scriptlogic:
Security Explorer (http://www.scriptlogic.co