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Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/14/2005 8:16:22 PM   
  killr0y

 

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Status: offline 		Hey guys,

I'm trying to rewrite a batch file using CACLS to a vbs script. Here's what I'd like it to do:

Ask user for a username (%user%)
Create X:\files\%user%
Create \\serverx\text\%user%
Remove allow inheritable permissions (and remove inherited)
add %user% with 'modify' permissions
Copy \\serverx\text\template\text to
\\serverx\text\%user%
Copy X:\files\%user%\*.id to
\\serverx\text\%user%\file\data


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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 12:51:20 AM   
  mbouchard


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Status: offline 		What do you have so far?

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 2:12:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm using a few non-native DOS executables, namely ask and cacls, which I'm trying to avoid. So basically, taking those out leaves me with some mkdir and xcopy commands. I have no idea how to set permissions using VBS. In fact, I have no idea how to do much of anything in VBS :P

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 6:57:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Do you have everything in place (working condition) for the batch file ? If so, I would suggest you to keep it that way. It makes no sense to me to use 2 lines of code in VB to do the same thing that can be done with only 1 line in batch file. Manipulating permissions with file and folder objects is also a hazzle. If you can do the same thing with one line using cacls, why bother with vbs ?

The only thing I think it is worth doing in vbs is the part when it asks for username, so you could possibly do some more "checking" more easily if necessary. Basically, you could just run everything else (besides the first line) in vbs using the RUN method of the SHELL object.

eg:

set shell = createobject("wscript.shell")
user = "some_user_name"
shell.run("Create X:\files\" & user)
shell.run("Create \\serverx\text\" & user)

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 7:11:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		HELP! I've done the folder create/copy stuff, I just need help with how to set the file permissions.. any ideas?

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 11:55:43 PM   
  mbouchard


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Status: offline 		I agree with Token. If it works in a bat with calcs use that. We use cacls.exe to set folder permissions where I work.

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/15/2005 11:59:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ok, I new I had a script from MS doing this and hopefully I can get it all to post. Not sure if there is a limit on length (over 4K lines) but I am going to try. If I can find a link to the script I will edit this post.

Ok, I found that link.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825751

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 12:21:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for that Mike. Now how do I incorporate this into my script? :P

Sorry for being such a newbie! Here is what I have so far (irrelavent stuff omitted)

MakeFolders.vbs contains:

Blah blah bla...
Set f = fso.CreateFolder(LANPath & UserInput)
Blah blah bla...

So the folder is created in a subfolder on a network share, and I want to change the NTFS permissions of it in the following way:

1) Turn off "allow inheritence", and remove all previously inherited permissions.

2) add UserInput (the user's logon name) with modify permission.

Thanks for all of your help, it is much appreciated!!

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 5:48:22 AM   
  mbouchard


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Status: offline 		I have not used that script myself so am not sure what would need to be done to incorporate it into your script, but I think that you would call it in a command line from your script just like you would call calcs.exe.

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 6:00:32 AM   
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... but I think that you would call it in a command line from your script just like you would call calcs.exe.


heh.. so why bother getting another vbs file that does the same work as cacls ? Is there a reason why you don't want to use cacls.exe to simply your work ?

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 6:18:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Dear God!, I can't believe they use WMI in xcacls.vbs [:0]

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 7:59:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I use vbs but have it call MS RESKIT tool SubInACL.

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 9:20:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		esnmb, what do you primarily use it for on a regular basis ? I mean, do you use it during the new user creation process or something else ?

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 7:52:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ok, I got my script finished but XCACLS isn't working quite the way it should. The only way I could figure out how to make it work was to do a shell.Run to launch the external XCACLS.VBS. The problem with this is that as soon as one shell.Run executes, it goes to the next one before it finishes.. This causes 3 instances of XCACLS to run in parallel which XCACLS apparently doesn't like, so none of the permissions wind up changing.

Any ideas?

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 8:57:54 PM   
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Originally posted by token

quote:
Originally posted by mbouchard

... but I think that you would call it in a command line from your script just like you would call calcs.exe.


heh.. so why bother getting another vbs file that does the same work as cacls ? Is there a reason why you don't want to use cacls.exe to simply your work ?


I have to use XCACLS because CACLS doesn't support the /I flag which turns off permission inheritence.. unless theres a new version of CACLS that I don't know about.

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 9:28:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ok, What I'm doing now is I'm calling a batch file from my VBS script. The batch script works great. Only problem I have now is how do I pass the "Input" var from my InputBox off to the batch file??

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 10:25:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Duh.. ok figured it out.. thanks guys!

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 11:18:28 PM   
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Originally posted by killr0y

Ok, I got my script finished but XCACLS isn't working quite the way it should. The only way I could figure out how to make it work was to do a shell.Run to launch the external XCACLS.VBS. The problem with this is that as soon as one shell.Run executes, it goes to the next one before it finishes.. This causes 3 instances of XCACLS to run in parallel which XCACLS apparently doesn't like, so none of the permissions wind up changing.

Any ideas?

Use wait on return.

Shell.Run "xcacls.vbs",1,TRUE

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/16/2005 11:21:22 PM   
  mbouchard


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Originally posted by killr0y

quote:
Originally posted by token

quote:
Originally posted by mbouchard

... but I think that you would call it in a command line from your script just like you would call calcs.exe.


heh.. so why bother getting another vbs file that does the same work as cacls ? Is there a reason why you don't want to use cacls.exe to simply your work ?


I have to use XCACLS because CACLS doesn't support the /I flag which turns off permission inheritence.. unless theres a new version of CACLS that I don't know about.

There is a new version of cacls from the 2k res kit
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/xcacls-o.asp[/url

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Re: Setting folder permissions in WSH - 3/17/2005 4:13:03 AM   
  token

 

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I have to use XCACLS because CACLS doesn't support the /I flag which turns off permission inheritence.. unless theres a new version of CACLS that I don't know about.


heh.. You didn't mention that cacls won't turn off permission inheritance, I thought you have EVERYTHING already in place and you just wanted to convert the batch script to vbs.

If you can't get xcacls to work and still interested in doing it using pure vbs, let me know =)

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