From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T00:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Advanced Permissions on Folders

> -----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 

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

Regards,

Dan