managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> 11/14/2008 9:05:08 PM cacls or wmi for managing ntfs permissions? I was going to go with cacls but having an issue using 'echo y | cacls...' command? my cacls command is good, it works until I try to echo y into it so it can go without user interaction. Anyone know whats up with that? how is wmi for this? haven't looked yet, just looking for others opinions based on their experiences using either of these thanks

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> 11/14/2008 9:30:55 PM I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) regardless, still interested in hearing about others experience using this and/or wmi for scripting ntfs permission managment tasks. I have not looked into the wmi route but do recall an example somewhere that looked overly complicated for the goal at hand... I'm thinking cacls is much simpler, with the only negative being I need to shell out from wsh. thanks "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:Or$atypRJHA.4772[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > cacls or wmi for managing ntfs permissions? > > I was going to go with cacls but having an issue using 'echo y | cacls...' > command? my cacls command is good, it works until I try to echo y into it > so it can go without user interaction. Anyone know whats up with that? > > how is wmi for this? haven't looked yet, just looking for others opinions > based on their experiences using either of these > > thanks >

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "Marcin" <marcin[ at ]community.nospam> 11/16/2008 1:38:33 PM James - stick to cacls (try xcacls or icacls if you are running Vista). While managing permissions via scripting (with or without WMI) is certainly possible, such approach is considerably more complex and time consuming. Check http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160995.aspx to get a taste of it... hth Marcin "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%230IcIBqRJHA.5344[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... > > echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) > > regardless, still interested in hearing about others experience using this > and/or wmi for scripting ntfs permission managment tasks. I have not > looked into the wmi route but do recall an example somewhere that looked > overly complicated for the goal at hand... I'm thinking cacls is much > simpler, with the only negative being I need to shell out from wsh. > > thanks > > "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:Or$atypRJHA.4772[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> cacls or wmi for managing ntfs permissions? >> >> I was going to go with cacls but having an issue using 'echo y | >> cacls...' command? my cacls command is good, it works until I try to echo >> y into it so it can go without user interaction. Anyone know whats up >> with that? >> >> how is wmi for this? haven't looked yet, just looking for others opinions >> based on their experiences using either of these >> >> thanks >> > >

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "James Whitlow" <jwhitlow.60372693[ at ]bloglines.com> 11/16/2008 3:14:29 PM "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%230IcIBqRJHA.5344[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... > > echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) > > regardless, still interested in hearing about others experience using this > and/or wmi for scripting ntfs permission managment tasks. I have not > looked into the wmi route but do recall an example somewhere that looked > overly complicated for the goal at hand... I'm thinking cacls is much > simpler, with the only negative being I need to shell out from wsh. I frequently use cacls from both command line and script. I use it exclusively with the /E switch, which does not present a confirmation prompt. In my case, I am just wanting to grant (or revoke) a specific user from the directory or file. I am not concerned with altering other permissions on the directory. I also looked at the WMI method sometime back & came to the same conclusion as you. It is indeed a lot of learning and work to accomplish what shelling out to cacls could accomplish easily.

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? David Trimboli <trimboli[ at ]cshl.edu> 11/17/2008 2:37:52 PM James wrote: [Quoted Text] > I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... > > echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) Just so you know: cacls also takes a /f (“force”) parameter to skip confirmation. -- David Trimboli Windows Systems Analyst Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> 11/17/2008 4:23:23 PM thanks all for the great input. I appreciate it. "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%230IcIBqRJHA.5344[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... > > echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) > > regardless, still interested in hearing about others experience using this > and/or wmi for scripting ntfs permission managment tasks. I have not > looked into the wmi route but do recall an example somewhere that looked > overly complicated for the goal at hand... I'm thinking cacls is much > simpler, with the only negative being I need to shell out from wsh. > > thanks > > "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:Or$atypRJHA.4772[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> cacls or wmi for managing ntfs permissions? >> >> I was going to go with cacls but having an issue using 'echo y | >> cacls...' command? my cacls command is good, it works until I try to echo >> y into it so it can go without user interaction. Anyone know whats up >> with that? >> >> how is wmi for this? haven't looked yet, just looking for others opinions >> based on their experiences using either of these >> >> thanks >> > >

Re: managing NTFS permissions - cacls or wmi? "David" <David[ at ]nospam.goodwinpictures.com> 11/19/2008 9:11:22 PM we use the following in a bacth file during our initial image building to set it up. xcacls.vbs c:\temp /t /e /g BUILTIN\USERS:F /E /I ENABLE xcacls.vbs c:\temp /t /e /g "domain\DOMAIN USERS":F /E /I ENABLE "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%230IcIBqRJHA.5344[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I was putting a space after y in: echo y | cacls... > > echo y| cacls... without the space works, of course :) > > regardless, still interested in hearing about others experience using this > and/or wmi for scripting ntfs permission managment tasks. I have not > looked into the wmi route but do recall an example somewhere that looked > overly complicated for the goal at hand... I'm thinking cacls is much > simpler, with the only negative being I need to shell out from wsh. > > thanks > > "James" <noone[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:Or$atypRJHA.4772[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> cacls or wmi for managing ntfs permissions? >> >> I was going to go with cacls but having an issue using 'echo y | >> cacls...' command? my cacls command is good, it works until I try to echo >> y into it so it can go without user interaction. Anyone know whats up >> with that? >> >> how is wmi for this? haven't looked yet, just looking for others opinions >> based on their experiences using either of these >> >> thanks >> > >