Matt Blatchley writes ..
>Does anyone know of a way to use perl and CGI to have the following:
>
>html page w/ form to get stdin from the user for username and
>password.(basic),
>pass the variables to the perl script which then modifies permissions
>for a specific folder on NT and allows the user to then have access to
>a particular folder after having the password emailed to the user...
yes you can do it .. but the CGI program (be it Perl or ASP/vbscript) will
only have the security privileges of whatever account the web server is
configured to access the CGI directory as
this is usually a builtin account called something like
IUSR_machinename
and it's usually only a Guest .. because Guests can't change permissions on
directories then you'll run into problems
once you've changed that account then you have to be REALLY careful with the
programs that you write and the web server in general (especially with
WebDAV now in IIS5) because users will have higher privileges on your system
to actually change the permissions you can use a Perl module called
Win32::FileSecurity
which ships with the standard distribution of Win32 Perl .. or you can just
call cacls.exe with the system command .. it's a WinNT utility for change
the ACL (permissions)
--
jason king
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