How is it possible to list all folders that a particular user/group has permissions on?
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Is it possible to list all folders/files that a given group has explicit permissions on, for a machine running Windows Server 2003? If so, how? It would be nice to see inherited permissions as well, but I could do with just explicit permissions.
A little background: I'm trying to update groups/permissions on a test server. One of the groups, Devs
, wasn't implemented correctly when it was created, and my goal is to remove it from the system. It has been replaced by LeadDevelopers
, which has permissions on many — but naturally not all — of the same folders. I want to make sure that I don't accidentally orphan any folders or cause any other issues when I remove Devs
. It did have some admin-level permissions.
EDIT: The answers so far — at least *cacls
and AccessEnum
— provide a way to find out which groups/users have permissions on known directories/files. I actually want the reverse of this behavior: I know the group, and I'm looking for the directories/files for which the group has permissions. Also, as I noted in a comment, the Devs
group is not itself a member of any other group.
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