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Display Inherited From within Powershell

I am trying to see if PowerShell is able to display the "Inherited from" of a folder's permissions. The Get-ACL access commands do not appear to be able display this information. I want PowerShell to display what folder permissions are coming from when it sees a permissions is being inherited. Anyone know if this is possible?

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Performed many versions of Get-ACL command. Scan the properties of the Get-ACL to see if able to identify "Inherited from" property but unable to. Expecting a command to run that will list the "Inherited from" for a principal account.

Solution

  • Instead of Get-Acl you should use the module NTFSSecurity from Raimund Andree.

    After installing/importing run the following code:

    Get-Childitem C:\ -Recurse -Directory | Get-NTFSAccess

    And you should get a very large and granular output of all Folders, Subfolders and where its inherited from. From there on you should be capable to filter down with
    -Path, Where-Object and select-Object to your desired destination/folder.