giriraj
24th October 2007 08:29 UTC

How to find a file/directory owner?
  Hello.
I need to find out the owner of the file/directory that exists on NTFS file system.
Is there any way out there that could help me to find it out?

Giriraj.

giriraj
24th October 2007 14:42 UTC

i hope my query is not that tough for the experienced NSIS guys out there?

Afrow UK
24th October 2007 14:48 UTC

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446629.aspx

Stu

giriraj
25th October 2007 06:51 UTC

Thanks a lot Afrow.
The code sample helped me find out the owner of a file.
But how do i find the owner of a directory?
I know directory is a special kind of file.
But i am not able to sort this out.

Regards,
Giriraj

pospec
25th October 2007 07:28 UTC

Easily, add FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag to CreateFile function.

...

>// Get the handle of the file object.

   hFile = CreateFile(

                     argv***91;1***93;,

                     GENERIC_READ,

                     FILE_SHARE_READ,

                     NULL,

                     OPEN_EXISTING,

                     FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,

                     NULL);

... 

giriraj
25th October 2007 08:01 UTC

Thanks a lot pospec.
It did work out.

Regards,
Giriraj.

pospec
25th October 2007 08:08 UTC

You're welcome. Are you going to release a DLL plugin for this thing?

Afrow UK
25th October 2007 12:51 UTC

This is something I plan to add to the AccessControl plug-in when I have time.
The version currently on the Wiki is already out of date.

Stu

pospec
25th October 2007 13:14 UTC

I tried to write that plugin but have never before write DLL. You're obviously more experienced. Maybe you could point me to some good docs about this problematics.