Managing security? Download subinacl.exe and learn how SubInACL is the Swiss Army knife of permissions management.

Managing security is probably the number-one headache for Windows administrators. Between the file system, registry, and services, IT Pros have their hands full managing access control, especially if they want to script from the command line. There are certainly a number of command line tools to manage these different areas, but because I’m an old-school kind of guy, I tend to fall back to an old resource kit tool: SubInACL, or subinacl.exe, the veritable Swiss Army knife when it comes to managing permissions.