Automating Security: A Guide to the Xcacls Script

You should use icacls. It is the modern, native, and fully supported Windows command-line tool for managing NTFS file and folder permissions. Its competitor, xcacls, is a deprecated legacy component from the Windows 2000/XP era that is prone to bugs on modern operating systems and should no longer be used. Key Differences At a Glance Reddit·r/sysadmin