Thanks for the reply Lewis. What I am looking for is a lot less complicatedthan CFX-Permissions and also necessary to run on both Windows and Linux. I basically want to be able to set a permissions string for a user in the database and use a mask to test if a certain bit string is set. If it is the user has permission to perform a certain action
Ex. 10101010 permission string 00000010 mask -------- 00000010 user has permission to perform this action I just wanted to know if there was anything more involved in this other than just doing the above masking operation. I'm sure there is, but it's Friday and I can only think about the weekend right now. I'll also take a look at your custom tag and bug you if I have any questions. Thanks for your help. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Lewis Sellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Directory permission bitwise operation help needed On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:41:55 -0700, in cf-talk you wrote: >I believe Lewis Sellers can help you. He has written CFX tags to manipulate >users and permissions. You'll find posts from him on this talk list... Yep. Though the phrase "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know" might apply here. Many moons and years ago I wrote a tag called CFX_Permissions for the IHTK (which is free now btw and open-sourced). CFX_Permissions lets you modify the permission settings of files and folders under NT. It also does extended directory listings which included the permissions for all the files/folders you tell it to look at. It also lists SIDs, and NT Account names for the owners of the files/folders. Very handy for web hosting and intranet security (hense it's inclusion in the Intranet/Hosting Toolkit. :). I don't offhand recall the exact bits you have to set for each of the permissions types... though I can tell you wasn't exactly a simple set up. We're talking something designed by microsoft here after all. But if you poke around the request.cpp in the cfx_permissions source everything should be there... in C though. If you don't understand how it works... just ask. I might remember how it worked. /-) --min ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
