Need suggestions on comparing file security rights on a large set of files

There are many, many file compare utilities out there and I'm trying to find one that can fill a specific need.

Scenario: During a file server migration, I would to be able to compare directory and file permissions on both sides to show if there are any differences between the two. I've tried AccessEnum from SysInternals but due to the sheer amount of data involved, it isn't providing what I need.

Anyone know of a utility out there that can handle about 2 terabytes of file security compares? I don't care about the file contents in this case, only the security that is 'stamped' on both sides. I am sure I am overlooking a simple solution somewhere but I am drawing a blank.

Any help is most appreciated! Please leave a comment on this entry or shoot me an e-mail.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Microsoft, Windows OS at 15:30 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Try to use either XACLS.vbs and of CALCS.exe to dump it to a file. Then write a script to 2 compare them. This might not be faster than AccessEnum with 2 TB of data but at least this is scriptable.

#1 Mark Morowczynski (Homepage) on 2008-05-02 19:00 (Reply)

ICACLS (exists in windows 2003 sp2 and vista)
icacls c:\bern\* /save fichierACL /T
you will get this king of result for a file momapi.zip
c:\bern\MOMAPI.zip
BUILTIN\Administrateurs:(I)(F)
AUTORITE NT\SYSTEM:(I)(F)
BUILTIN\Utilisateurs:(I)(RX)
AUTORITE NT\Utilisateurs authentifiés:(I)(M)
You will get a huge file
the nice thing is that you can restore the permission too

#2 PAQUOT on 2008-05-04 09:08 (Reply)

another is security explorer

http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/security-explorer/windows/

#3 PAQUOT on 2008-05-04 10:20 (Reply)

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