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August 07, 2006

Check file/folder permissions: AccessEnum

AccessEnum
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/accessenum.html


Another great utility from SysInternals, this one gives you the skinny on who has access to what files/folders, and tells you what type of access they have.

This is extremely useful for situations when you have a user call in and ask you how locked down you have a particular folder or share. Now you can tell them without having to 'right-click>properties' your way through a folder structure.

You can specify to only show you files/folders that differ from the parent folder/share that you started from, thus reducing your results significantly. Also, you can export (the important part of AccessEnum) the results to a text file (although I would have like to have seen CSV as an option). You can then bring this information into your spreadsheet application and pretty it up a little before sending off to your inquisitive user.

Finally, not only will AccessEnum enumerate file/folder security permissions, but you can query registry tree structures as well!

Once again, bravo SysInternals...don't ever change ;)

Update, this utility is now called 'ShareEnums'

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

blackberryforums.com is down right now. gurrrr

maximillian_x said...

I noticed that too - - I'm going through withdrawal...!