SwitchRight

SwitchRight is a simple command-line file permission replacement utility for Microsoft Windows®.

Why SwitchRight?

Large network filesystems will often have an extensive and complex set of file permissions. Major structural changes such as a new Windows file server, a new domain, or a major corporate reorganization may require those permissions to be reset or re-established from scratch. This process can be more than time-consuming: errors while setting permissions can result in critical information being inaccessible, or worse, sensitive information accessible to the wrong people! SwitchRight allows these changes to be made quickly and easily in an automated, rule-based fashion.

When using the Microsoft-recommended permission structure (AGLP or UGLP), NTFS permissions are assigned to local groups. Even if a filesystem is transferred to a new system with permissions intact (by restoring from backup or with a utility like Robocopy), the differing local account SIDs will invalidate the permissions. SwitchRight provides a simple two-step solution to this problem by automatically translating local permissions between systems for local groups with the same name.

SwitchRight can also simplify any basic permission translation, switching the permissions for any user or group with any other user or group through an entire directory structure.

Features

• Simple two-step procedure allows for fast and easy permission replacement.
• Automatic enumeration of all users/groups in the directory structure ensures no account will be missed.
• No installation required.
• Automatic local account translation allows local permissions to be replaced based on account name.
• Consists of a single executable for ultimate portability.
• Lightning-fast performance.
• Optional test mode allows for a complete test run before making any filesystem changes.

Requirements

• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2003 Server

• NTFS file system

Documentation and Support

All documentation can currently be found in the SwitchRight Knowledge Base. Any comments, bug reports or feature requests which you may have can be posted to our Winterfrost community forums. Your comments on this utility would be greatly appreciated.

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SwitchRight is currently in beta testing and therefore we recommend that it only be used in a test environment or on a file system which can be easily recovered.