Any of the permission in the list below is enough to allow an user to use Set-ACL?

Question

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.directoryservices.activedirectoryrights?view=dotnet-plat-ext-7.0

AccessSystemSecurity	16777216	The right to get or set the SACL in the object security descriptor.
CreateChild	1	The right to create children of the object.
Delete	65536	The right to delete the object.
DeleteChild	2	The right to delete children of the object.
DeleteTree	64	The right to delete all children of this object, regardless of the permissions of the children.
ExtendedRight	256	A customized control access right. For a list of possible extended rights, see the Extended Rights article. For more information about extended rights, see the Control Access Rights article.
GenericAll	983551	The right to create or delete children, delete a subtree, read and write properties, examine children and the object itself, add and remove the object from the directory, and read or write with an extended right.
GenericExecute	131076	The right to read permissions on, and list the contents of, a container object.
GenericRead	131220	The right to read permissions on this object, read all the properties on this object, list this object name when the parent container is listed, and list the contents of this object if it is a container.
GenericWrite	131112	The right to read permissions on this object, write all the properties on this object, and perform all validated writes to this object.
ListChildren	4	The right to list children of this object. For more information about this right, see the Controlling Object Visibility article.
ListObject	128	The right to list a particular object. For more information about this right, see the Controlling Object Visibility article.
ReadControl	131072	The right to read data from the security descriptor of the object, not including the data in the SACL.
ReadProperty	16	The right to read properties of the object.
Self	8	The right to perform an operation that is controlled by a validated write access right.
Synchronize	1048576	The right to use the object for synchronization. This right enables a thread to wait until that object is in the signaled state.
WriteDacl	262144	The right to modify the DACL in the object security descriptor.
WriteOwner	524288	The right to assume ownership of the object. The user must be an object trustee. The user cannot transfer the ownership to other users.
WriteProperty	32	The right to write properties of the object.

I know the user must be file owner or member of the administrators to run Set-Acl. How can I make the user a file owner? To use set-ACL in an OU I would need the user to be file owner of this OU?

Answer 1

Hi Igor Godinho,

Thank you for posting on the Q&A forum.

You need to be the file owner or the local administrator to run the Set-Acl cmdlet to set the permissions you list above on a file. To make a user the file owner, you can still use the Set-Acl cmdlet or run takeown.exe. You need to be the local administrator to do that.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/takeown

If you want to set the permissions on an OU with Set-Acl, you need to be the domain administrator.

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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