NTFS Permissions 1

[bazzert]

OK, at the school where I work all the students (1700) have a folder that is only accesable to them and administrators. Whoever originally set up the folders should have added the teaching staff to the permissions.

Now I want to add the staff group to the permissions however I can't to seem to find an easy way to do this. The student folders are sub folders of a student data folder. On each sub folder its easy to add the staff to the permissions, but of course I don't want to go through that process 1700 times.

If I add the staff group to the route folder (student data) which options should I tick for allowing propogation of permission to the sub folders so that the current settings remain?

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

Right click the main folder, goto security tab > advanced, make sure that allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate is selected.

Add the staff members group and it should propagate to all child folders.

 

[bazzert]

Thought that might be the case was just trying to make sure it didn't overwrite the permissions already on the folders.

 

[bazzert]

OK, all sub folders have allow permissions to propagate from parent unchecked.

Its not possible to select more than one of these child folders as the permissions are different for each one (individual user) so it looks like they will all have to be set one by one.

Unless someone knows better?

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

If you goto the root folder goto security > advanced > under premissions add new group then edit to what you want it todo, you should be able to select which folders it applies to, select "this folder, subfolders and files"

 

[ntinlin]

Try something like CACLS from the command line.
VERY dangerous utility if you get it wrong however.

You'd want to run something like this in your top level folder.

CACLS *.* /e /c /g teachers:C

You MUST have the /e switch to edit the ACL rather than replacing it.