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Woot4Moo
Woot4Moo

Reputation: 24316

List all files permissions recursively *nix/Windows/Solaris

I know this is technically a 3 part question, but it is all in the same vein. I need a way to generate a report, most likely text based, that will display all of the file permissions on all directories and files within a tree. The tree has a depth of X, I say X because it is possible that this tree will grow. Regardless I have a start for a *nix implementation, but it is definitely lacking.

*nix

ll */ */ */ * > perms.txt

This is of course pretty terrible based on the number of times I would need to repeat this, it does however generate the results that I desire. I imagine Solaris will look much the same, Windows I am not sure what to expect. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8053

Answers (3)

Helge Klein
Helge Klein

Reputation: 9085

On Windows use SetACL to get a full listing like this:

SetACL.exe -on "path" -ot file -actn list -lst "f:tab;w:d,o" -rec cont_obj

That creates a permission listing in tabular (= human readable) format including owner and DACL, recursing over all sub-containers and sub-objects.

Upvotes: 3

Vinko Vrsalovic
Vinko Vrsalovic

Reputation: 340171

For Windows, there's CACLS, but it doesn't recurse automatically to list ACLs. Here's a VBScript that will do that part for you: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/VBScript_ACL_Crawl.aspx

On Linux it's probably simplest (and most portable) to use ls -lR as ire_and_curses says.

Upvotes: 1

ire_and_curses
ire_and_curses

Reputation: 70142

Is recursive ls sufficient?

ls -lR

Another good option is tree, which has nice output.

tree -p

Upvotes: 8

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