Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Windows permissions

The filesystem and registry providers both support Get-Acl and Set-Acl, which allow the different access control lists to be modified.

Working with permissions in PowerShell involves a mixture of PowerShell commands and .NET objects and methods.

While some values and classes differ between the different providers, many of the same concepts apply.

The following snippet creates a set of files and folders in C:\Temp. These files and folders are used in the examples that follow:

New-Item C:\Temp\ACL -ItemType Directory -Force1..5 | ForEach-Object {    New-Item C:\Temp\ACL\$_ -ItemType Directory -Force    'content' | Out-File "C:\Temp\ACL\$_\$_.txt"    New-Item C:\Temp\ACL\$_\$_ -ItemType Directory -Force 'content' | Out-File "C:\Temp\ACL\$_\$_\$_.txt" ...