Thanks. After looking through the thread, I could not find a technique that explicitly interrogated an object's ACL for specific NTFS permissions, this so that you could pass in an object (e.g., a folder), and get back a bitmask that would indicate things for a specific user like:
- Can list folder contents
- Can create / delete files in folder
- Has all access denied
- Is the object owner

... and likewise for file objects rather than folder objects.

All the techniques I saw seemed to rely on testing and error trapping rather than just asking the system for a comprehensive list of what's allowed for the user.



>I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that approaches outlined in this thread should work.
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>>Naomi,
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>>Do you know if there is a generalized way available within VFP (maybe a set of API calls that somebody has figured out?) that will return NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder for the user who is running the VFP app at the moment?
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>>Thanks.
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