Tag: Permissions

Using a least privilege user account for vRanger

January 21, 2014

I was recently configuring a vRanger deployment to which I wanted to configure the service account running the various services to run under the context of a least privelage user. The service account will require log on as a service permissions, db_owner permissions to the vRanger database on the SQL Server instance and also write … More Using a least privilege user account for vRanger

Using Powershell to set file system access control list entries

October 10, 2012

As part of an automation task I was required to set access control list (ACL) permissions on a folder created. In order to achieve this I create a script block in powershell. In my example, I had to assign Modify permissions for a security group to a directory. In this example, I will be assigning the security … More Using Powershell to set file system access control list entries