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I am trying to run showacls /s to list all the permissions on a set of subfolders. The folders are users' my documents folders and when the structture was set up, no admin priveledges were added. Therefore only the user and System have access to the folders and showacls /s does not work for these folders.
Is it possible to run this as System or is there a better program to use to list the permissions on folders I don't have access to?
Thanks
Will
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by: ylandrumPosted on 2009-06-17 at 14:16:41ID: 24652691
One trick is to create a batch file that runs the command you want and outputs to a text file, then use the command-line scheduler AT to schedule the batch file to be run whenever you want (like a minutes later). The program will be launched as SYSTEM and you should get everything in the text file.
Say it is 2:30 PM, and you have a batch file called ListACLs.cmd that has this command in it:
showacls /s > ACL-List.txt
Go to a command window and enter:
AT 14:31 /i ListACLs.cmd
A minute later the batch file runs as SYSTEM and outputs your test file. That should get everything.