From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T10:06:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Advanced Permissions on Folders

On 3/21/06, Archie Call <archcall@gmail.com> 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?
>
> I have searched hi and lo in Google with little luck?
>
> TIA...Arch

Presumably there's an API for setting the ACLs in NTFS, but I've never used it.
Until you figure out how to invoke that, you could just do a system()
call out to "cacls.exe", which will take care of it.
Do "cacls.exe /?" to see the options.

This Google hit seems to have some useful info that could be
interpreted into Ruby:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/11/AccessControlinNET/