# Reading NTFS ACL's

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/reading-ntfs-acls/34060>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reading-ntfs-acls/34060 "2020-10-19T19:08:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![kzersatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@kzersatz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kzersatz)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reading-ntfs-acls/34060/1 "2020-10-19T19:08:09Z")

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From what I’ve found from searching and tinkering myself, it isn’t too easy to read NTFS ACL’s from a file path, local or UNC, doesn’t matter… am I mistaken on this?

Would this be something better to just cheat and write a PS function to complete what I need instead?

Desire:  
Read NTFS ACL’s from folder A (Can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this properly)

Write NTFS ACL’s to Folder B except with only RO flags (Already know how to do this)