On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Mark Nienberg <gm...@tippingmar.com> wrote: > On 2/11/2011 12:59 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> >> you need to specify the inheritance, I think. Try this: >> >> icacls "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox" /grant Users:(OI)(CI)F >> >> This way the permissions will be pushed downwards from that folder. >> Otherwise the permissions only apply to the folder and not to the >> underlying objects. > > I'll give it a try. I spent a lot of time testing at the command line and > found it pretty frustrating. Thanks.
yes, windows permissions are a pain to script. >> But ..., are you really sure you want to do this? You are basically >> allowing them to install anything on the system, they only need to >> specify a folder in that path. > > I don't see any way around this for the time being. In addition to the > eamples I mentioned, I have some software packages that try to write their > ini files and so forth into the Program directory. Until those programs are > updated (by vendors, not me), I have to allow user write access to specific > directories. I feel your pain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
