acl Alternatives

acl is described as 'Commands for Manipulating POSIX Access Control Lists' and is an app. There are four alternatives to acl for Windows, Linux and BSD. The best acl alternative is SetACL, which is free. Other great apps like acl are SetACL Studio, SubInACL and Eiciel.

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  1. SetACL icon
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    Free, powerful and fast management of Windows permissions (ACLs) and object ownership. From the command line and via COM. For administrators and developers. Works with files, folders, registry keys, printers, file shares, services and WMI objects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • SetACL is the most popular Windows alternative to acl.

    • SetACL is the most popular free alternative to acl.

    • SetACL is Free and Proprietaryacl is Free and Open Source
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    Permissions minus Complexity Intuitive permission management with the power of SetACL. Less clicks, no more UAC prompts, increased productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SubInACL icon
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    SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain.

    4 SubInACL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Eiciel icon
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    Traditionally, tools to manage file ACL entries have been setfacl(1) and getfacl(1). Those are command-line tools and some people can feel uncomfortable using them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Eiciel is the most popular Linux alternative to acl.

    • Eiciel is the most popular Open Source alternative to acl.

    • Eiciel is Free and Open Sourceacl is also Free and Open Source
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