take ownership and reset perms

I have a folder of roaming profles (not windows profiles, but its the same
deal)

I need to take ownership and reset permissions so that the user (folder
name) and the admin group have full control to the folder.

is there a good way to do this with PS?

I was trying to find the old xcacls script but right now xcacls is giving me
an access denied error when i do a xcacls c:\folder /g administratos:OF

obviously i dont have access, thats why im doing the O for take
permissions...

id like to learn how to do it with PS but right now i just need the quickest
way possible.

Thanks
Justin

Justin,

I'm sorry to say that you've answered the question yourself. Don't use PS if
you want a quick and easly solution. Use what you know in the enviroment it
knows.

I think I'm probably a month+ ahead on the curve but from my experience if
your under the gun you will only frustrate yourself by trying this in PS.

Having said that

Get-Acl
Set-Acl

are two of the main cmdlets you'll need. Get-ChildItem returns a single
file/directory. My guess is you'll be apply logic specific to each folder so
you will be walking the path using the results from Get-ChildItem and piping
this into ForEach

The other point is in order to stay popular in your office this script that
you write will need to be well tested.

bob

"Justin Rich" wrote:

Thanks for the feedback.

the reason i look to PS is because the tools i normally use (resource kit
stuff) gives me an access denied. I know i have the rights to take
ownership, i can do it just fine manually...

I'll have to take a look at that and see what i can do.
At this point im not under the gun, but it looks like this will come around
again so i'd like to be ready for it next time.

Thanks
Justin

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