Emjona http://www.emjona.com Tools and Thoughts of a System Engineer Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:30:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ACL & SID History Tool http://www.emjona.com/archives/17 http://www.emjona.com/archives/17#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:24:07 +0000 admin http://www.emjona.com/?p=17 A while back we were trying to clean up our SID history from a migration we did when divesting from our original parent company.  We required a tool that would not only enumerate ACLs of files/folders but would also give us the SID associated with that ACL member.  A few tools were found from sysinternals that would enumerate ACLs but we couldn’t find one that would do exactly what we required.  So I went off to make NtfsSidEnumerator, horrible name btw.  With this tool I implemented a few different cmd line options (ignore inherited, ignore specified account names, whether or not it is a recursive enumeration, etc).  The only issue I have with this tool so far is that I can only get it to go to about 256 characters on the path name.  From some research I did it appears this is a Windows/.Net limitation.  Usually these folder paths are mounted in a way that clients don’t actually hit the 256 length limit.

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]]> http://www.emjona.com/archives/17/feed 0 Hello World! http://www.emjona.com/archives/1 http://www.emjona.com/archives/1#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:20:27 +0000 admin http://www.emjona.com/?p=1 Hey, this is my first post, I will be utilizing this blog for thoughts/lessons learned as well as tools that I have created to solve problems.  Currently I am working on sanitizing the applications to allow them to be properly used outside of the intended purpose.

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