And if you are on Win32 (which doesn't appear to be the case since the OP says it worked) then I'll just point out that the Win32 permissions model doesn't map to the POSIX -rwxrwxrwx model. At all.

For instance, people don't really "own" files (well they do), it's more that you have people (accounts) and groups on one side, and files on the other, and what the former may do to the latter is governed by relations established between the two.

The module Win32::Perms is a useful module to deal with manipulating Windows permissions. Note that it's not on CPAN, which means it misses out on smoke testing and so forth. For instance, to get the owner of a filename, it looks like this:

  my $username = Win32::Perms->new($filename)->Owner;

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In reply to Re^5: How to get file owner name? by grinder
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