access control list

The previous installment of this article provided some basic examples for using the ICACLS command. However, in reality, the ICACLS command can accept any number of grant and remove commands stacked on the same command line. This means that the syntax of the command can look like:
ICACLS userfile.doc /grant Sales:(r) /grant Readers:(r) /grant Managers:(f) […]

Although the Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be a powerful and easy way to set permissions and access control lists in Vista, Vista also ships with a utility called ICACLS. This utility replaces the CACLS utility found in XP.
The ICACLS utility lets you display, modify, backup and restore Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files and […]