Re: How to get an ACL exception report

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:57:04 -0600

Dumpsec is a nifty free tool and it may be able to do what you want if you
check the options in the "permissions report options". Another tool to check
is fileacl. I don't know if it can do exactly what you want but it has a
myriad of options including a /noinherited switch for display mode. ---
Steve

http://www.systemtools.com/somarsoft/ -- Dumpsec
http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm -- Fileacl

<kenw@kmsi.net> wrote in message
news:5nvt31t921aheemkflp8f9027ibjv3vb88@4ax.com...
> I'm looking for a program that will summarize ACL settings on a directory
> structure. I'd be happy with an option to use with XCACLS * /T that
> showed
> only settings that are not inherited from a parent.
>
> If I'm checking the security of a filesystem, it's impractical to check
> the
> security of every single file -- and highly redundant, as most files
> simply
> inherit ACLs from the parent folder. Yet any tool I've found lists ACLs
> in
> excruciating detail, burying important differences in a mass of irrelevant
> inherited data.
>
> I'm sure such a tool exists somewhere. Heck, Novell had it years ago --
> but then, their security structure was more efficient (;-/2).
>
> /kenw
> Ken Wallewein
> K&M Systems Integration
> Phone (403)274-7848
> Fax (403)275-4535
> kenw@kmsi.net
> www.kmsi.net

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