AccessChk Changelog

What's new in AccessChk 6.15

May 11, 2022
  • This update for AccessChk, a tool that shows what kind of accesses specific users or groups have to resources including files, directories, Registry keys, global objects and Windows services, fixes a crash with passing long strings on the command line. Parameters previously limited to MAX_PATH characters have no length restrictions now.

New in AccessChk 6.14 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • This AccessChk version adds support for NULL DACL reporting.

New in AccessChk 6.12 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective access and can dump access control lists, adds a cache to improve queries that enumerate multiple objects, and has the -s switch start container enumeration at the specified container when -d is specified.

New in AccessChk 6.11 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective access and can dump access control lists, adds a cache to improve queries that enumerate multiple objects, and has the -s switch start container enumeration at the specified container when -d is specified.

New in AccessChk 6.01 (Jan 6, 2016)

  • This release of AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective and actual access for many different object types including files, registry keys, and services, now handles accounts with long names, fixes a bug that prevented reporting of kernel object accesses when run elevated, and fixes the inadvertent creation of a registry key when querying a non-existent key.

New in AccessChk 6.0 (May 27, 2015)

  • This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that shows effective and actual permissions for registry keys, files, services, kernel objects, and more, can now show the permissions and security descriptors assigned to event logs, and incorporates owner-rights accesses in its permissions evaluations.

New in AccessChk 5.2 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • This update to Accesschk, a command-line utility that shows effective and actual permissions for registry keys, files, services, kernel objects, and more, adds an option to report permissions as SDDL strings, adds new process permission types, and fixes a bug with showing process security descriptors.

New in AccessChk 5.11 (May 18, 2013)

  • Now prefixes Windows 8 application container SIDs with the word “Package”
  • Includes minor several bug fixes

New in AccessChk 5.1 (Aug 4, 2012)

  • This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that shows the security settings and effective access on many object types, including registry keys and files, now reports Windows 8 claims and capabilities, shows the token of processes running as local system, lists security descriptor flags, and checks for remote interactive logon rights.

New in AccessChk 5.02 (Nov 11, 2011)

  • This AccessChk release includes improved error messages, reports registry key delete permission, and includes a manifest.

New in AccessChk 5.01 (Dec 10, 2010)

  • This release fixes several bugs, adds support for showing volume-level permissions, and reports objects that it can’t access.

New in AccessChk 5.0 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • A command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more, adds a new option to dump un-interpreted access control lists, an option to ignore inherited ACEs, distinguishes between file and directory permissions, and includes several bug fixes.

New in AccessChk 4.24 (Jan 12, 2010)

  • AccessChk, a utility that shows effective security permissions for files, registry keys, services, and more, now supports process tokens.

New in AccessChk 4.23 (Dec 20, 2008)

  • Changes the behavior of object manager name parsing to make enumerating the objects in an object manager directory more straight forward.