Try the command line utility cacls.exe (in %windir%\system32 to set access rights on directories or files in XP easily.
Spawn it from an application which runs with administrative rights and appropriate switches if required. If need be, run the application from a non-administrator account with runas in the Properties box and as /user:xxxxx, with xxxxx an administrator name. Under Vista, always use runas. If you don't want to have to give the password to a user, put the /savecred switch in before the /user switch and run it once as an administrator. It won't ask for a password again. If on a domain, see the command line help for runas. For greater control, download the Windows 2000 resource kit or search for it on the MSDN DVD's and install to get xcacls.exe which has a few additional rarely needed switches. Cacls.exe is on all versions of 32 bit Windows, and xcacls.exe is a ca. 80 kb file which can be distributed with an application or called from an installation program when it closes. If you are interested in all the gory details, enter "access control list" on the MSDN web site where you'll find references to all the API's which of course you can use in any program that is run with administrative rights or with runas. Irwin Scollar _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
