autoit to create folders and change security

[Biggs 0]

I am very new at Autoit. I have need of a solution to add or create a folder in a given directory and then add a specific user to the security setting and set the settings to allow that user to modify the contents of the folder.

Say the location is h:/users/

I want to create the folder newuser. I use DirCreate("h:/users/newuser") to create the directory

what i am having trouble with is then setting the security.

i want to add the user, say newuser, to the permissions list and grant modify to the user.

Can I do this with autoit?

[hannes08 39]

Hello Biggs,

you can assign rights to files and folders by autmating icacls.exe (Vista, 7, 2008) or xcacls.vbs (2000, XP, 2003).

There are lots of examples around. E.g. for 2008:

icacls.exe "H:\Users\theuser" /grant theuser:(OI)(CI)(M)

Edit: Typos

Edited September 26, 2011 by hannes08