
In all these cases, Icacls command comes to help. We may also need to access a file that came from an old backup or another computer and was therefore created with a different user even then, it will not be possible to access it. Or we may have to run a software that, for permission issue, does not work as it should. It can happen that, in some cases, we may lose sight of files or directories permissions, and when we try to access a specific file we have no result because we don’t have the rights to do so. In this article, we will learn how to set or reset NTFS permissions of a file or folder in a Windows operating system, with icacls command.
