PERMS.exe (Windows 2000)

Display a user’s ACL access permissions for a file. Output from PERMS may be misleading in cases where a user has inherited permission through membership of an NT workgroup. [First released in the NT4 Resource Kit]

Syntax
      PERMS [account] [path] options

Key
   account : username or [domain\|computer\]username 

   path    : name of a file or folder in any legal format
             including UNC names
             Wildcards are permitted.

   /i      : interactively logged on to the computer
             where the path resides.
             (rather than being connected via the network)

   /s      : include subfolders

Access  Description  

R  Read file/folder.

W  Write file/folder.   

X  Execute file.  

D  Delete file or folder. May be inherited from the parent folder
   via 'Delete Subfolder and Files' permission.

P  Change Permission.  

O  Take Ownership.   

A  General All  

-  No Access

*  The specified user is the owner of the file or folder.  

#  A group the user is a member of owns the file or folder.  

?  Permisssions cannot be determined. 

"Microsoft allowed us to change our startup screen, but we don't think we should have to ask permission every time we want to make some minor software modification. Windows is an operating system, not a religion" - Ted Waitt, Gateway Chairman

Related Commands:

CACLS - Display or modify Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files and folders
SHOWACL - Show file Access Control Lists (win 2000)
SUBINACL - Change an ACL's user/domain (use when the file owner has moved to a new domain)
ATTRIB - Display or change file attributes
XCACLS - Display or modify Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files and folders

Equivalent Linux BASH commands:

chmod - Change access permissions
chown - Change file owner and group