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Naigel
Naigel

Reputation: 9644

can't remove permissions on folder with powershell

I'm using powershell to remove folder permissions. My code is something like this

$folder = "\\myServer\C$\myFolder";
$folder_acl = Get-Acl $folder;
$permission_toDelete = $folder_acl.Access | where{  <# selection operation #> }
$permission_toDelete | Foreach-Object { $folder_acl.RemoveAccessRule($_) }

This code return a lot of True, but it actually doesn't change permissions. The user I'm using is administrator on that server. I also tried to remove inheritance with this piece of code $folder_acl.SetAccessRuleProtection($true, $false); but still have the problem

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1876

Answers (1)

Shay Levy
Shay Levy

Reputation: 126942

All that left is to pipe the current acl (after removal) to the Set-Acl cmdlet:

$folder_acl | Set-Acl

All True output is the return value of each removed acl. You can suppress it if you want:

$folder_acl.RemoveAccessRule($_) | Out-Null

Upvotes: 3

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