vbscript, Changing File Ownership

Changing File Ownership

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Shawn Becker #1 / 5	Changing File Ownership Is it possible to programatically change the owner of a file using VBScript? I can add a security entry to the ACL on a file, but I do not see how to change the ownership of the file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:00:51 GMT

John Avit #2 / 5	Changing File Ownership As far as NTFS ownership of file system objects is concerned, you cannot 'give' or 'assign' ownership to another user. You can only 'take' ownership. But you can assign the 'Take Ownership' permission to another user (or group) account, which in turn allows that user to take ownership of the object. The only way any user can (in your words) 'change the owner of a file', whether it be in script or otherwise, is by taking ownership of that file. In this case, the user is changing the owner of the file to himself. John Avitt, MCSE Is it possible to programatically change the owner of a file using vbscript? I can add a security entry to the ACL on a file, but I do not see how to change the ownership of the file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:06:15 GMT

Shawn Becker #3 / 5	Changing File Ownership Thanks for the explanation. I guess I should be more specific. I am looking to do via vbscript something similar to what the resource kit utility SUBINACL does. It allows you to set the owner of a file (as long as the user specied as the new owner has the ability to 'take ownership' of the file). So, how do I 'take ownership' of a file via vbscript? Or is this not possible? Quote: > As far as NTFS ownership of file system objects is concerned, you cannot > 'give' or 'assign' ownership to another user. You can only 'take' ownership. > But you can assign the 'Take Ownership' permission to another user (or > group) account, which in turn allows that user to take ownership of the > object. > The only way any user can (in your words) 'change the owner of a file', > whether it be in script or otherwise, is by taking ownership of that file. > In this case, the user is changing the owner of the file to himself. > John Avitt, MCSE > Is it possible to programatically change the owner of a file using vbscript? > I can add a security entry to the ACL on a file, but I do not see how to > change the ownership of the file. > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:39:28 GMT

John Avit #4 / 5	Changing File Ownership I am not familiar with SUBINACL but, if you have access to that utility, I would think that you could use it with the WshShell.Run method. I think it likely that ADSI provides a method for this, although I am not familiar enough with it to know. I am going to check into it further. Thanks for the explanation. I guess I should be more specific. I am looking to do via vbscript something similar to what the resource kit utility SUBINACL does. It allows you to set the owner of a file (as long as the user specied as the new owner has the ability to 'take ownership' of the file). So, how do I 'take ownership' of a file via vbscript? Or is this not possible? Quote: > As far as NTFS ownership of file system objects is concerned, you cannot > 'give' or 'assign' ownership to another user. You can only 'take' ownership. > But you can assign the 'Take Ownership' permission to another user (or > group) account, which in turn allows that user to take ownership of the > object. > The only way any user can (in your words) 'change the owner of a file', > whether it be in script or otherwise, is by taking ownership of that file. > In this case, the user is changing the owner of the file to himself. > John Avitt, MCSE > Is it possible to programatically change the owner of a file using vbscript? > I can add a security entry to the ACL on a file, but I do not see how to > change the ownership of the file. > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 01:28:57 GMT

Barry Fy #5 / 5	Changing File Ownership ------------------ If you've installed and registered ADsSecurity.DLL from the SDK, you can manipulate the Owner property of the Security Descriptor, then update it with IADsSecurityUtility::SetSecurityDescriptor method. ------------------ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Option Explicit Dim sec, sd Set sec = Wscript.CreateObject("ADsSecurity") Set sd = sec.GetSecurityDescriptor("FILE://c:\test\test") wScript.Echo "Control Flag: " & sd.Control & vbCrLf & "Group Owner: " & _ sd.Group & vbCrLf & "Owner: " & sd.Owner & vbCrLf & _ "SD Revision: " & sd.Revision sd.Owner="<DOMAIN>\newowner" 'I've only tried the "standard Windows" syntax sec.SetSecurityDescriptor sd Set sec = Nothing Set sec = Wscript.CreateObject("ADsSecurity") Set sd = sec.GetSecurityDescriptor("FILE://c:\test\test") wScript.Echo "Control Flag: " & sd.Control & vbCrLf & "Group Owner: " & _ sd.Group & vbCrLf & "Owner: " & sd.Owner & vbCrLf & _ "SD Revision: " & sd.Revision ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Quote: > Is it possible to programatically change the owner of a file using vbscript? > I can add a security entry to the ACL on a file, but I do not see how to > change the ownership of the file. > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:20:33 GMT

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