Propagating file permissions to all subfolders

I would like to allow the Users group read access to all files within
one of the subfolders of the Program Files folder. Plus I need this
read access to propagate to all files contained in the folder's
subfolders. How can I do this?

 

The users group should already have read access to all of Program Files. Are
you saying those permissions have been overwritten somehow?

If they have been overwritten it is quite complicated to get them back
because only the Trusted Installer has rights to write the permissions on
that folder. Can you verify you indeed have this problem?

 

I guess so. It appears to only affect the one folder. I only need
access to certain of the files from my IDE so I guess I will set the
read perms manually on these few files.

 

More than likely the program changed the permissions. That happens. If you
have a problem with changing the perms it is because it retained Trusted
Installer as the only thing that can change the ACL. If so you need to take
ownership and then change the ACL.

 

Actually I did not describe the problem just right. What I had to do
was add the User group to the individual file perms not set the User
read access rights. The User group was just missing. Still, if the
User group by default is included in all Progam Folder subfolders
rights, the installer must be overriding this somehow.