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How do i add one user to the acl for a folder

Zone: MSH/Monad PowerShell

Tags: add, folder, user

This is probably pretty simple, but I've been playing around with the set-acl command to add a user to a folder's permission list. So far all i can find is exaples where people do a get-acl on one folder and then apply the output of the get-acl to another folder.

Is there an easy way to add one user to a folder using set-acl and what does the format look like?

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Zone: Programming

Question Asked By: trnsfrmrsr

Solution Provided By: mass2612

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: A

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Comment by ubsoc

Chis,

I think this is what I am looking for, but how do you use it? Do you make it executable and run it?

Comment by Chris-Dent

You get a few choices there.

You can copy and paste into the PowerShell console, ensure you give correct values for:

$User = "<User>"
$Folder = "<Folder Path>"

Or you can save it as a .ps1 file. If you do that you'll have to change the Execution Policy in PowerShell. You can do that with:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

For further details on the effects of that take a look at:

Get-Help Set-ExecutionPolicy -full

Then it'll let you run it with this from the PowerShell console:

./filename.ps1

Or with "PowerShell filename.ps1" from the regular command line.

Chris

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