hanenjom
13th December 2011 17:35 UTC

File permission
Hi,
can you help me please,
how can I get the file permissions please, IF I can writ on or not .
thx

MSG
13th December 2011 17:41 UTC

If you only want to know whether or not you're able to write to a file, you can attempt to open with for appending data.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.9.5.2

If that fails, you don't have write access (either you have insufficient privileges, or the file is locked).

hanenjom
14th December 2011 09:42 UTC

I want to know how's permission I have an the file, for example if I havent the right to write or modify it.
I want to get all permission I have for this file.

Thx.

MSG
14th December 2011 10:15 UTC

I don't think you want ALL permissions. There's a lot of them. Please be more specific.

hanenjom
14th December 2011 10:33 UTC

my problem is I want to write in a existant file, but i must verify first if I have the permission to write on.

For example I have a sharing file who just I can read it and not modify or write.
When I want write on i would like to have a message "permisssion to write denied".
for that i search why can I know hwo's permissions I have to a specific file.

Thx.

jpderuiter
14th December 2011 12:31 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/File_siz...ions_and_times

GoldkinG
21st January 2012 09:47 UTC

Try with Access Control plugin
I think Access Control Plug-in is useful to solve ur problem..

try the below link:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/AccessControl_plug-in

rayanbb
21st January 2012 14:20 UTC

you can do it through the xcacls script, however if you are applying the same permissions to all files and folders, then you should be able to right click on the top level folder and change the owner of that and have apply to all subfolders.

MSG
21st January 2012 18:02 UTC

The question is not about setting permissions, it's about checking them. jpderuiter supplied a working solution.