diff --color -ru a/doc/man/usbguard.1.adoc b/doc/man/usbguard.1.adoc
--- a/doc/man/usbguard.1.adoc	2021-09-20 09:08:55.134538747 +0200
+++ b/doc/man/usbguard.1.adoc	2021-09-20 16:46:48.266557561 +0200
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@
 ....
 
 Consult the usbguard-daemon.conf(5) man-page for a detailed list of available privileges in each section.
+You can also use 'ALL' instead of 'privileges' to automatically assign all relevant privileges to a given section.
 
 
 === *remove-user* 'name' ['OPTIONS']
diff --color -ru a/doc/man/usbguard-daemon.conf.5.adoc b/doc/man/usbguard-daemon.conf.5.adoc
--- a/doc/man/usbguard-daemon.conf.5.adoc	2021-09-20 09:08:55.135538763 +0200
+++ b/doc/man/usbguard-daemon.conf.5.adoc	2021-09-20 13:20:09.788855176 +0200
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@
 
  ** list: Get values of run-time parameters.
 
+ ** listen: Listen to property parameter changes.
+
 The following is a generally usable and reasonably safe example of an access control file.
 It allows one to modify USB device authorization state (`Devices=modify`), list USB devices (`Devices=list`), listen to USB device related events (`Devices=listen`), list USB authorization policy rules (`Policy=list`) and listen to exception events (`Exceptions=listen`):
 
diff --color -ru a/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.cpp b/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.cpp
--- a/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.cpp	2021-09-20 09:08:55.206539917 +0200
+++ b/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.cpp	2021-09-22 10:38:28.703655497 +0200
@@ -159,18 +159,25 @@
       throw USBGUARD_BUG("Cannot set privileges for NONE section");
     }
 
+    const uint8_t p = static_cast<uint8_t>(privilege);
+
     if (section == Section::ALL) {
-      for (const auto& value : {
+      for (const auto& s : {
           Section::POLICY,
           Section::PARAMETERS,
           Section::EXCEPTIONS,
           Section::DEVICES
         }) {
-        _access_control[value] |= static_cast<uint8_t>(privilege);
+        _access_control[s] |= p & ~ac_mask(s);
       }
     }
     else {
-      _access_control[section] |= static_cast<uint8_t>(privilege);
+      if (privilege != Privilege::ALL && (p & ac_mask(section))) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("Invalid privilege " +
+                privilegeToString(privilege) + " for section " +
+                sectionToString(section));
+      }
+      _access_control[section] |= p & ~ac_mask(section);
     }
   }
 
@@ -254,6 +261,28 @@
     merge(access_control);
   }
 
+  uint8_t IPCServer::AccessControl::ac_mask(IPCServer::AccessControl::Section section) const
+  {
+    const uint8_t MODIFY = static_cast<uint8_t>(Privilege::MODIFY);
+    const uint8_t LIST = static_cast<uint8_t>(Privilege::LIST);
+    const uint8_t LISTEN = static_cast<uint8_t>(Privilege::LISTEN);
+
+    switch (section) {
+    case Section::DEVICES:
+      return ~(MODIFY | LIST | LISTEN);
+    case Section::POLICY:
+      return ~(MODIFY | LIST);
+    case Section::EXCEPTIONS:
+      return ~(LISTEN);
+    case Section::PARAMETERS:
+      return ~(MODIFY | LIST | LISTEN);
+    case Section::ALL:
+    case Section::NONE:
+    default:
+      return 0xff;
+    }
+  }
+
   IPCServer::IPCServer()
     : d_pointer(usbguard::make_unique<IPCServerPrivate>(*this))
   {
diff --color -ru a/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.hpp b/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.hpp
--- a/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.hpp	2021-09-20 09:08:55.200539819 +0200
+++ b/src/Library/public/usbguard/IPCServer.hpp	2021-09-20 13:11:31.476803776 +0200
@@ -278,6 +278,17 @@
       };
 
       /**
+       * @brief Get a privilege mask for given section
+       * 
+       * For example, if the section is POLICY that has privileges MODIFY
+       * and LIST, the mask would be ~(MODIFY | LIST)
+       *
+       * @param section Section for which the privilege mask should be returned
+       * @return Privilege mask for section
+       */
+      uint8_t ac_mask(Section section) const;
+
+      /**
        * @brief Access control represented by unordered map of
        * tuples (Section, 8b privileges).
        *