Windows Advanced Permissions on Folders

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Yep, but I think the OP will want File.set_permissions. :slight_smile:

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Burt [mailto:dave@burt.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:09 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Windows Advanced Permissions on Folders

Archie Call wrote:
> In a MS-Windows environment I know how to recurse all the folders
> using a Dir.glob statement that starts a certain level of the
> directory tree.
>
> I am struggling with a way in Ruby to set the advanced
permissions for
> certain folders:
>
> Properties
> .Security
> ...Advanced
> .....View Edit
> .......Permissions
> .........13 Detailed kinds of specific permissions for the folder
>
> There must some kind of command to set these: Is it something with
> Win32API?

You can use Win32API to access Windows API calls directly.
You probably
don't want to.

Try win32-utils' win32/file module. Its
File.attributes(file_name) and
File.set_attr(file_name, flags) support the following attributes:
    * archive
    * compressed
    * content_indexed
    * directory
    * encrypted
    * hidden
    * normal
    * offline
    * read_only
    * reparse_point
    * sparse_file
    * system
    * temporary* win32/file doco:
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/36/file.txt
* Rubyforge project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/
* download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85&release_id=1918

Cheers,
Dave

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Daniel wrote:

Yep, but I think the OP will want File.set_permissions. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the correction; maybe I should start reading the posts I reply
to!

Cheers,
Dave