Hi, As part of an Active Directory cleanup I'm having to change users login names and, therefore, their home folder name and permissions. Using win32::perm I can change the permissions on the home folder and all child folders using 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Perms;

my $user1 = 'john123';
my $home = 'C:\test_'.$user1;
# Create a new Security Descriptor and auto import permissions
# from the directory

my $dir = new Win32::Perms($home) || die;

$dir->Remove(-1); # remove defaults

my $user2 ='john321';

$dir->Allow('Domain Admins',FULL,FILE);
$dir->Allow('Domain Admins',FULL,DIR);

$dir->Allow($user2,CHANGE,FILE);
$dir->Allow($user2,CHANGE,DIR);
#$dir->Owner($user);

my $home1 = $home.'\*';

$dir->Set()or die "ERROR: Failed to set Permissions on folder(1)";
$dir->SetRecurse($home1)or die "ERROR: Failed to set Permissions on fo
+lder(2)";

$dir->Close();

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which seems to do a very nice job. How can I do this recursively for all the files contained in the folder(s)? When I try to set the path in SetRecurse to ...\*.* it doesn't work.

In reply to win32::perm recursive file permission setting by steverippl

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