Would you like to learn how to verify the file permissions using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to get the NTFS permissions of a file on Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7

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Tutorial Powershell – Verify the file permissions

Start a Powershell command-line.

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Verify the permissions of a file or directory.

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Here is the command output.

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Display the file permissions as a table.

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Here is the command output.

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Get only the inherited file permissions.

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Here is the command output.

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Display only not inherited file permissions.

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Here is the command output.

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Verify the file permissions for a specific user.

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Here is the command output.

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This will not show inherited permissions.

Congratulations! You are able to display the file permissions using Powershell.