PowerShell To Set Folder Permissions

Question

I am trying to use the \"default\" options in applying folder permissions; by that, I mean that using the \"Full Controll, Write, Read, etc\" in the \'Properties\' for a fol

Answer 1

In case you had to deal with a lot of subfolders contatining subfolders and other recursive stuff. Small improvment of @Mike L'Angelo:

$mypath = "path_to_folder"
$myacl = Get-Acl $mypath
$myaclentry = "username","FullControl","Allow"
$myaccessrule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($myaclentry)
$myacl.SetAccessRule($myaccessrule)
Get-ChildItem -Path "$mypath" -Recurse -Force | Set-Acl -AclObject $myacl -Verbose

Verbosity is optional in the last line