Sesecurityprivilege privilege which is required for this operation

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Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading Author: Nishant Rana I love working in and sharing everything about Microsoft. An exception of type System. PrivilegeNotHeldException was thrown. Please share your thoughts Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email Address never made public. Lets think Innovative. Kokulan's Blog. Learn more. Setting permissions on a windows fileshare Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 3 months ago. Active 6 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 8k times. Secondly, if the folder has not got inherited permissions it gives an error saying Set-Acl : The process does not possess the 'SeSecurityPrivilege' privilege which is required for this operation.

Improve this question. Ansgar Wiechers k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I think what you want to do is look for 'Allow' ACEs that aren't being inherited. Also, if you include inherited ACEs, you'll end up with a new explicit ACE for each one, and you can't removed the inherited ones unless you break inheritance You're not copying the existing inheritance and propagation flags, and you're not using the defaults for a folder.

Improve this answer. Rohn Edwards Rohn Edwards 2, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Can this method be implemented to copy file permission to a diff dir?

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Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. This issue also happens when updating Docker Desktop via the app itself - it fails during the update and, instead of rolling back the changes, it simply uninstalls Docker completely.

The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. I can confirm I just had the same issue with installing 3. Managed to resolve the issue by installing an earlier version of Docker.

I picked 3. Edit: whilst installing an older version works, the older version automatically wants to update itself again, which causes the update to fail and leaves me without a functioning docker install. Sorry, something went wrong. I'm facing this issue too. The auto update to 3. I am having the same issue of installation failed due to 'SeSecurityPrivilege' with 4. I was successful in installing 3.

Logfile attached. Same here, this privilege provides access to "Manage auditing and security log", and would be blocked on most enterprise machines through group policy, so even as an Admin we'd not be able to set it.

Probably needs a way to bypass or make this check optional. Note: 3. Having the exact same experience described above. Having to re-install 3. We shall see Thanks for the report. The permissions are normally too permissive, so they need to be restricted. Possibly it's trying to remove too many of the ACL rules.

I do find it confusing that this has anything to do with the windows event log. But maybe I just don't understand how windows works.