One Word: SuperCACLS. We have used the SuperCACLS suite and are extremely happy with it. Not only does it handle the ACL's including forcing ownership changes, it is relatively dirt cheap.

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--Patrick Day Sys Admin Bayer Corp.

owner-toasters@mathworks.com on 06/21/99 02:10:04 PM To: tkaczma@gryf.net @ INTERNET cc: "DDA.RFC-822=toasters@mathworks.com/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 Subject: RE: Windows NT Resource Kit partial contents

I'm happy you were able to get the NT reskit chown to work. In the spirit of collegiality that so far has pervaded the toasters list, perhaps you could provide an example of how you did it? As far as I can see the "F-ing Manual" (in this case the "F" is richly deserved) says little more about chown other than to state that it is present. And I already gave an example of the "usage" output when no arguments are supplied. Can you give me a pointer to the manual or help file or doc file for this?

Ever curious, I downloaded the sources for the NT POSIX commands, and chown.exe just uses the NT POSIX subsystem "chown()" call which takes a 32 bit numeric UID. It is hard to see how that can be used to set the normal NT security information. I am curious how you were able to use that chown to help administer NT boxes. Are you positive it wasn't the MKS toolkit chown? And if you did do it, were you able to set the owner to something other that yourself (i.e. other than a "take ownership")?

The sources did solve the mystery of why the "usage" was asking for a group: the chown and chgrp commands use the same executable, and the command looks at the third byte of the command to see if it is "o" (lower case only) to see if it's chown or chgrp. I was typing "f:chown", so the third byte was 'c'. As I said, these NT POSIX commands are pretty crude.

Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: tkaczma@gryf.net [mailto:tkaczma@gryf.net] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 11:34 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Windows NT Resource Kit partial contents

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Muhlestein, Mark wrote:

You're right! I forgot about the NT POSIX tools. But I was unable to ever get the 'chown' command to work. This stuff is pretty crude. MKS Toolkit is far superior. Has anyone ever gotten the NT reskit 'chown' to work? Here's what I get from the very latest version:

I had it working even programatically, in the times when I was foolish enough to administer NT boxes. I can say one thing, I'm glad I went back to my roots before this Melissa and other e-mail worms poop hit the fan.

My advice on getting chown to work: RTFM.

Tom