Security_SetDirPermissions

Owned by Martin Gudme Søndergaard
Oct 26, 2022
1 min read

Description

Sets access right for a trustee on a directory

sRight can be one of the following values:

  • F: Full Control
  • C: Change
  • R: Read
  • X: Execute
  • E: Read Execute
  • W: Write
  • D: Delete

Notes: 

Some names of Trustees has been localized, such as Power Users. In these cases you have to use the SID. If bIncludeSubDirs has been set to True, the parameter sDir will change to sDir & "*" e.g. from C:\Temp to C:\Temp*
If more than one access right needs to be applied the values must be added in the same sRight string e.g. "RW" to obtain Read and Write access on the Directory. 


Syntax

Security_SetDirPermissions(sDir, sTrustee, sRight, bIncludeSubDirs) As Boolean 


Parameters

sDir (String)

Name of the Directory

sTrustee (String)

A trustee is a user or group. Trustee can either be "Domainname/username" or a Well-known SID (Security Identifier)

sRight (String)

Access Right that should be set

bIncludeSubDirs (Boolean)

Include subdirectories (True/False)


Example

VBScript
If bStatus Then bStatus = Security_SetDirPermissions(gsProgramFiles & "\CapaInstaller\Logs","S-1-5-4", "F", True)

Scripting Guidelines


Related functions

Security functions Security_DenyDirAccess Security_RevokeDirPermissions