This is not a perl question so I suggest you try posting in a more appropriate forum if you want to get more help

It basically depends on the (web)server setup. Generally a CGI will run as a low permission user (nobody) with minimal rights to do anything anywhere. WIN2000 using NTFS basically uses the UNIX file permissions model with permissions for the owner (Admin/Owner), group (Group/Workgroup) and world (Everyone). Essentially the setup you want is for your CGIs to be part of a special group say called 'text'. You then need to set up a folder /textfiles that is owned by you and part of the text group. You give full permission on this folder to yourself and R/W to the text group. You deny everyone else any permissions on this folder. You should now be able to run a CGI that can read and write to a non world readable folder and also place new files in it.

When I say you I mean your WIN2000 Admin unless you can convince them to give you remote access.

As for a tip -> IIS - - Apache ++. WIN2000 drag and drool, *nix raw power.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Remotely setting file permissions on a Win2000 server by tachyon
in thread Remotely setting file permissions on a Win2000 server by XeneX

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