page_title: Cacls
section_title: cacls
hierarchical_section_title: Cacls / cacls
caption_attribution_description: English: cacls command on ReactOS-0.4.13
context_page_description: In computing, cacls and its replacement, icacls, are Microsoft Windows native command line utilities capable of displaying and modifying the security descriptors on folders and files. An access control list is a list of permissions for securable object, such as a file or folder, that controls who can access it. The cacls command is also available on ReactOS.
context_section_description: The cacls.exe utility is a deprecated command line editor of directory and file security descriptors in Windows NT 3.5 and later operating systems of the Windows NT family.  Microsoft has produced the following newer utilities, some also subsequently deprecated, that offer enhancements to support changes introduced with version 3.0 of the NTFS filesystem:
  xcacls.exe is supported by Windows 2000 and later and adds new features like setting Execute, Delete and Take Ownership permissions
  xcacls.vbs
  fileacl.exe 
  icacls.exe (included in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and later)
  SubInAcl.exe - Resource Kit utility to set and replace permissions on various type of objects including files, services and registry keys
  Windows PowerShell (Get-Acl and Set-Acl cmdlets)
  The ReactOS version was developed by Thomas Weidenmueller and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
caption: The ReactOS cacls command
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