Set Owner of Directory and Sub Containers in C#

Question

When setting the owner of a preexisting folder in Server 2008 R2, is there a way to make this propagate to all of the sub containers under the object? You can do this in the Properties diag, but I do not see a switch for this.

I am looking for a way to avoid recusing through the sub containers to do this.

This code will switch the owner for only the top level directory.

DirectoryInfo myDirectoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo("PATH HERE");
DirectorySecurity myDirectorySecurity = myDirectoryInfo.GetAccessControl();

System.Security.Principal.IdentityReference myOwner = 
    new System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("TARGET OWNER ACCOUNT");
myDirectorySecurity.SetOwner(myOwner);

myDirectoryInfo.SetAccessControl(myDirectorySecurity);

Answer 1

There is no overload that will provide this for you.

But the following code will do that:

DirectoryInfo directoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo(path);
var directories = directoryInfo.EnumerateDirectories("*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
foreach (var directory in directories)
{
    // set owner                
}

Note that I use EnumerateDirectories instead of Directory.GetDirectories , it will return instantly even if there are 1000's of directories.