In message <3AE4BAB0.3090204 at ActiveState.com>
Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:
> Tim Howarth wrote:
>
> > My problem with directories not accepting security descriptors was
> > not quite correct.
> > So next problem how do I turn them on programmatically ?
>
>
> It appears the win32 extensions lack this capability.
Thanks, again, nice to know it's not me !
I guess I'll have to stick to cacls.exe for now.
(Except, that echoes output to my user creator web page, need to sort
that out....change stdout whilst calling cacls ?)
> My MSDN CD has an article "HOWTO: Set Security on a NTFS Folder
> Programmatically" that shows exactly what you want (although in VB code!).
Yes, that's probably what I found when trying to work out how to do this
- VB being more readable to me than similar things in C.
> It would be cool to add this support, and not _too_ much work - I would
> be happy to help, but don't have the time to do it all right now...
Is there any way to do a generalised API call with win32 ? (Staying in
Python, I've no/very little knowledge C-wise and certainly none about
compiling win32 from sources.)
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