Topic: icacls

• Reading, granting, and backing up NTFS permissions with icacls and Get-Acl/Set-Acl

  icacls reads and grants NTFS permissions and encodes inheritance as (OI)(CI) flags; icacls /save and /restore back up and reapply an entire ACL tree before a change, and Get-Acl/Set-Acl give the same information as PowerShell objects.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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