How to Programmatically Change File Permissions with Commerce.AdminSecurity (257206)

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The following Visual Basic example code demonstrates how to grant the local Guest group Read permissions to the local C:\Temp directory:

Sub main()
Call SetFolderSecurity("C:\Temp", "Guests")
End Sub

Function SetFolderSecurity(strFoldername, strNTGroupName)
Dim objsecurity As Object
Set objsecurity = CreateObject("Commerce.AdminSecurity")
    objsecurity.AddPermission CStr(strNTGroupName), CLng(&H80000000)
    objsecurity.AddPermission "Administrators", CLng(&H10000000)
    objsecurity.WriteSecurityDirectory strFoldername, True
End Function
				

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