Re: Windows Security

Personally, I shell out to icacls.exe.

It will for the most part prevent you from screwing things up too badly, whereas using the APIs -- assuming you can find an up-to-date and maintained module that gives you access to them -- it is extremely easy to screw things up completely.

I don't trust myself to program an api that complex; should I trust someone else?

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I'm with torvalds on this

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Re^2: Windows Security by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2015 at 04:58 UTC
I don't trust myself to program an api that complex; should I trust someone else? Thats a good point, to further explore it, the module comes with PermFix.pl 5.81K 14 Mar 2004 02:57:08 GMT PermChg.pl 22.09K 21 Mar 2004 02:44:49 GMT PermDump.pl 4.03K 14 Mar 2004 02:57:09 GMT As a negative, none of that functionality is in module form of a Simple API As a positive, there are tests for some of it and they mention cacls.exe https://metacpan.org/source/TEVERETT/Win32-Security-0.50/t/scripts.t As another negative, there is no mention of unicode wide calls or wchar ... so unless you're using 8.3 shortnames if your names are unicode you're kinda stuck :)	[reply]
Re^3: Windows Security by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 06, 2015 at 05:26 UTC
The most significant information there are the dates: March 2004. icacls (the replacement for the notoriously inept cacls) first came with Vista which shipped in 2006/2007. With an API that complex, and that has gone through many changes, I'd be very reluctant to use a third party tool that is 10 years out of date. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I'm with torvalds on this In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. Agile (and TDD) debunked	[reply]