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NTFS Permission question (Inheritance)

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syoo

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Jun 30, 2003
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Is it possible to take off "Inherit from parent" on all child folders and files in a single step?

I have bunch of sub folders that contains many more subfolders that have files under them. All have inherit from parent checked on and I need to uncheck all.

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Not with the GUI. You know how it prompts you to "Copy the inherited permissions"? It does this because most folders on a Win2000 system do not have any permissions set on them at all! They count on inheritance to give even the administrator access to them. If you clear the inheritance flag on your whole system, you'll be locked out of a lot of folders.

If you're sure you want to do this, you can use a tool like "setacl" that is really nice for modifying NTFS permissions in scripts.

 
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