Question

I need to grant full access permissions on folder using (deprecated on win7) Cacls. It seems to me that i have to use with cacls localized usernames and groupnames. E.g.:

cacls foldername /T /E /C /G Users:F

This gave me error “No mapping between account names and security IDs was done”. And next command works fine (users in russian = Пользователи).

cacls foldername /T /E /C /G Пользователи:F

How can i grant full permissions on folder regardless of the system language?

Answer 1

Use xcacls instead as described here and use SIDs instead of names (you will find well known sids here)

If you for some reason are stuck with cacls, then google: cacls sidwill bring you some workarounds how to do reverse mapping from sid to name and then supply this to cacls

Edit: could not resist to learn some new tricks…
this simple script will give you actual name of ‘Users’ (S-1-5-32-545) group on a given PC:

    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
    Set objAccount = objWMIService.Get ("Win32_SID.SID='S-1-5-32-545'")
    Wscript.Echo objAccount.AccountName

Put it into a file with vbs extension (Let’s assume usersName.vbs).

Now run:

echo Y|for /f "delims=" %i in ('cscript -Nologo usersName.vbs') do cacls foldername /G "%i":F

Done 🙂

Edit: corrected to work if name has space in (added delims=). Please also note that echo Y at the start works if you use English version of the tool.