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Command-line permissions

Command-line permissions

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Command-line permissions

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- You can do a lot with users and permissions from a command line. So in this episode, what I want to do is concentrate first on dealing with permissions. And then I want to talk about things like changing password and ownership. So first of all, let's take a look at changing NTFS permissions using a program called iCACLS. That's fun to say, isn't it? Now, if you take a look right here on my D drive, you'll see I've got a folder called Timmy. And what I want to do is I want to give the mic user account full control over that Timmy folder. So to do that, we just type in iCACLS and then the folder or file I want to apply it to. And then I want to grant to the user mic full control. So let's hit enter. Ta-da, iCACLS is wildly complicated. And interestingly enough, it's not on the A+ exam. So you're sitting there going, well, Mike, why did you just show me that? Well, because you need to know it as a tech. What is on the exam is changing permissions within a Linux environment using the…

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