Chapter 23. Security Settings

In This Chapter:

 

Windows Security Basics

402

Classes

406

Reading ACLs

408

Reading ACEs

410

This chapter covers the management of access control lists for files, directories, and registry keys. The access control list is a crucial concept of Windows that controls access to resources. Resources such as file system objects and registry entries are protected by access control lists (ACLs). Windows PowerShell (WPS) offers two built-in commandlets for working with ACLs:

  • Get-Acl Read the ACL of a resource

  • Set-Acl Write the ACL of a resource

They include the basic functions of downloading and saving an ACL, depending on the displayed resource path. With WPS 1.0, however, only the file system and the registry are supported.

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