Re: XCACLS inheritance permission & warning message questions - please help

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 08/05/04

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    Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:15:36 +0200

    Marlon Brown wrote:

    > Two questios on XCACLS on Win2000 and Win2003:
    >
    > 1) I run
    > xcacls C:\mytest /G MYGROUP:F;F /C /Y /E /T
    > And "MYGROUP" doesn't have the check mark on "allow permission from parent
    > to propagate to this object".
    > Is it possible to set that option on the parent folder using XCACLS or
    > another method ? Please advise.
    >
    > 2)
    > All the permissions on folders under MYGROUP are set accordingly, but when I
    > go the Properties I got the message below. I've seen that's a bug. Any fix
    > for this ?
    > the permnissions on folder2 are incorrectly ordered, which may
    > cause some entries to be ineffective. Press OK to
    > continue and sort the permissions correctly, or Cancel to
    > reset the permissions.
    Hi

    Take a look at this one:

    xcacls.vbs:

    Download details: Extended Change Access Control List Tool (Xcacls)
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ad33a24-0616-473c-b103-c35bc2820bda&displaylang=en

    I would think SetACL is able to do a better job as:

    SetACL.exe (freeware) at
    http://setacl.sourceforge.net/ 

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