Hi all, welcome back,

The following .NET 2.0sample shows how to get security info from a folder to find out the permissions for users/groups on it:

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Security.AccessControl;

using System.Security.Principal;

namespace ConsoleApplication1

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            // Variables

            //

            string strFolderPath = "";

            DirectoryInfo dirInfo = null;

            DirectorySecurity dirSec = null;

            int i = 0;
            try

            {

                // Read the path to the directory

                //

                do

                {

                    Console.Write("Enter existing directory > ");

                    strFolderPath = Console.ReadLine();

                } while (!Directory.Exists(strFolderPath));
                // Get the ACL of the directory

                //

                dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(strFolderPath);

                dirSec = dirInfo.GetAccessControl();
                // Show the ACEs of the ACL

                //

                i = 0;

                foreach (FileSystemAccessRule rule in dirSec.GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(NTAccount)))

                {

                    Console.WriteLine("[{0}] - Rule {1} {2} access to {3}",

                    i++,

                    rule.AccessControlType == AccessControlType.Allow ? "grants" : "denies",

                    rule.FileSystemRights,

                    rule.IdentityReference.ToString());

                }

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.Write("EXCEPTION: ");

                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

            }

            Console.WriteLine("\n<

>");

            Console.Read();

        }

    }

}

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Alex (Alejandro Campos Magencio)