I don't find any information about how are the special case NULL DACL and empty DACL treated in Windows. I understand what they are but don't know ho ...

I have some problem. I tried to search solving in the internet, but didn't find them (they didn't work). The problem is... For example I have some f ...

I am trying to launch a process in a context of a user that I log on using LogonUserExW. In order to do that, I need to modify DACL of Winstation "Wi ...

Scenario: I have a service that can create, start, stop other services and offers this through IPC to user processes. How can I check in my service i ...

On Windows, even if discretionary ACL (DACL) is empty, i.e. no one has permission to the file, file owner can read and write DACL (READ_CONTROL and WR ...

I have the server that creates the client process and creates the named pipe. The client communicates to the server via the named pipe. To prevent ...

I am using a code similar to below to check the access to the folders/files. Source This code is failing on the customer machines (where our app ru ...

Is there an analog of the SetFileSecurity function? I need to re-write some tests from Python and I'm stuck on this part. In Python I can freely edit ...

While debugging a particularly troublesome error involving SQLite and IIS, we encountered a permissions problem when accessing the App_Data properties ...

I have a Windows service application whose installer I am building using install shield. How to set the DACL of the service while installing? I know I ...

I'm trying to modify Windows access rights to a file in a way that only the owner (not even other Administrators) can access the file. Somewhat the eq ...

In need to get the ACL object and replace an Access.IdentityReference.Value and keep the rest of the object intact so I can apply the Set-Acl to anoth ...

(Note: IMO the question is mainly about WinAPI and DACL and not about CNG, so please read on!) I'm currently trying to modify the sample CNG key stor ...

The AccessCheck function gets a GenericMapping parameter. What is this parameter used for? It is NOT used for the DesiredAccess parameter since MapGen ...

I am testing the following code in C using Win32 API, which is intended to create a new file that is accessible for the current user but private (not ...

I can't read a particular file, even though as far as I can tell I have read rights on it. Here is what "Effective Access" shows: Here is what Get- ...

Is it possible to create a custom Access Token to create Access Control Entries for a Discretionary Access Control List that will allow only certain p ...

When I install my application using the setup executable (generated using NSIS) on certain computers a particular DLL does not get the ACL for the the ...

I'm curious if there's a way to prevent users (including the ones belonging to the admin group) from taking ownership of a file? I originally create ...

I'm trying to create a named pipe between two Windows processes. The server process runs under a normal account, in a UI session. The client process r ...