From: Peter Loftus Date: 2007-11-15T00:10:46+09:00 Subject: Re: checking permissions for config files Alex LeDonne wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 5:48 AM, Peter Loftus wrote: >> I have been trying to find a class that can take in a file path and >> another argument like group id or read write permissions for different >> people like root, group and other. The only class i can find that does >> anything near that is the file or fileutils class but they can just set >> groupids etc or check to see if the person running the process has read >> or write privileges to the file in question. >> Im just wondering then is there anyother classes that can help me out >> with my checks? >> thanks in advance >> Loftz > > > Well, you mentioned what you want the method to take as arguments, but > what should it return? What are you checking? > > -A Like lets just say one of the functions checks the directory /var and finds out if 'other' has r-x privileges so then that function returns either true or false if it does then true if it doesn’t then it returns false. I just want to know if there is a class in a library that might have something already like that so I don’t have to waste my time and look into how I might write one up cheers Loftz -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.