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VBScript Recursive ACL List

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20 Sep 2005 1  
List a directory and its subdirectories' access control list.

Quick and easy ACL printout

This is a VBScript which will list the ACL for all subdirectories in the directory you specify. Many businesses like to have a paper record of security settings for disaster recovery but no built in tool in Windows will print the ACLs of multiple directories at a time and the alternatives like "pracl" are fairly expensive.

It's quite a pain with anything but the most simple directory structure to manually print them so I took the "VBScript directory crawler" and modified it to launch cacls to display the ACL information for the directory and all subdirectories.

Obviously, to put this output into a file you just execute "cscript listacl.vbs > acl.txt".

The code

'    ListACL.vbs

'    ACL Modifications by CyberneticWraith, 2005

'    Changed it to display ACL information for folders

'    Uses "cacls.exe"

'    Run with cscript!

'

'

'    IndexScripts()

'

'

'    Written by Keep Bertha Surfin Heavy Industries,

'    a division of Keep Bertha Surfin Electrical Concern

'    Version 1.0 - KeepBerthaSurfin@Hotmail.com

'


' First thing, check the argument list for a directory.

' If they didn't specify one, use the current directory.


option explicit

' Run the function :)

call IndexScripts


sub IndexScripts()

    dim fso
    set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")

    dim loc
    if WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 then
        loc = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")
    else
        loc = WScript.Arguments(0)
    end if

    GetWorkingFolder loc, 0, 1, "|"

    set fso = nothing
    
End Sub


' called recursively to get a folder to work in

function GetWorkingFolder(foldspec, foldcount, _
                                   firsttime, spacer)

    Dim objShell,oExec
    Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    
    dim fso
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

    dim fold
    set fold = fso.GetFolder(foldspec)
    
    dim foldcol
    set foldcol = fold.SubFolders
    
    'do the first folder stuff

    if firsttime = 1 then
        wscript.echo fold.path
        
        foldcount = foldcol.count
        firsttime = 0
    end if
    
    dim remaincount
    remaincount = foldcol.count
    
    'do the subfolder stuff

    dim sf
    for each sf in foldcol
                
        'execute cacls to display ACL information

        Set oExec = _
          objShell.Exec("cacls " & chr(34) & sf.path & chr(34))
        
        Do While Not oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
             str = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
             Dim str
             Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine str
        Loop
        
        set oExec = nothing
        
        remaincount = GetWorkingFolder (foldspec +"\"+sf.name, _
                                   remaincount, firsttime, spacer)
    
    next 
    
    'clean up

    set fso = nothing
    
    GetWorkingFolder = foldcount - 1

end function

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