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How to execute external program and get it's exit code in delphi

Asked by: mukhtar2t

Hi there,

I need to use cacls.exe or xcacls.exe to set folder permissions in Delphi. How I can execute this program and get the return code from it in order for me to know whether it succeed or failed.

This is the syntax for cacls:

cacls c:\test /G everyone:F <C:\yes.txt

Regards

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2009-01-12 at 23:57:34ID24046705
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Answers

 

by: ciulyPosted on 2009-01-13 at 00:00:26ID: 23360702

here is a page with a bunch of such functions: http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=93

you will need the winexecandwait32 funciton which will return the exit code

 

by: sas13Posted on 2009-01-13 at 00:21:03ID: 23360779

if you want to give permission for "everyone" for folder, you can use with function without call external programms.
This function work in my install program. (D7)
PS. some OS restriction: WinNt and above

uses
  AclAPI, AccCtrl; 
//...
 
function TakeOwnership(const APath: PAnsiChar): boolean;
var
  _ea: EXPLICIT_ACCESS;
  _old_ACL: PACL;
  _new_ACL: PACL;
  _sd: pointer;
  _err: cardinal;
  _token_handle: THandle;
  _priv: TTokenPrivileges;
  _sid: PSID;
begin
 Result := false;
 if OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES or TOKEN_QUERY, _token_handle) then begin
  if LookupPrivilegeValue(nil, PChar('SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege'), _priv.Privileges[0].Luid) then begin
   _priv.PrivilegeCount := 1;
   _priv.Privileges[0].Attributes := SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
   AdjustTokenPrivileges(_token_handle, false, _priv, 0, PTokenPrivileges(nil)^, PDWord(nil)^)
  end;
  if LookupPrivilegeValue(nil, PChar('SeSecurityPrivilege'), _priv.Privileges[0].Luid) then begin
   _priv.PrivilegeCount := 1;
   _priv.Privileges[0].Attributes := SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
   AdjustTokenPrivileges(_token_handle, false, _priv, 0, PTokenPrivileges(nil)^, PDWord(nil)^)
  end;
  CloseHandle(_token_handle)
 end;
 if GetNamedSecurityInfo(APath, SE_FILE_OBJECT, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, nil, nil, @_old_ACL, nil, _sd) = ERROR_SUCCESS then begin
  AllocateAndInitializeSid(SECURITY_WORLD_SID_AUTHORITY, 1, SECURITY_WORLD_RID, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, _sid);
  try
   ZeroMemory(@_ea, SizeOf(EXPLICIT_ACCESS));
   _ea.grfAccessPermissions := GENERIC_ALL;
   _ea.grfAccessMode := SET_ACCESS;
   _ea.grfInheritance := SUB_CONTAINERS_AND_OBJECTS_INHERIT;
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeForm := TRUSTEE_IS_SID{TRUSTEE_IS_NAME};
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeType := TRUSTEE_IS_WELL_KNOWN_GROUP{TRUSTEE_IS_USER};
   _ea.Trustee.ptstrName := PChar(_sid){'EVERYONE'};
   _new_ACL := nil;
   _err := SetEntriesInAcl(1, @_ea, _old_ACL, _new_ACL);
   if _err = ERROR_SUCCESS then begin
    Result := SetNamedSecurityInfo(APath, SE_FILE_OBJECT, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, nil, nil, _new_ACL, nil) = ERROR_SUCCESS;
    LocalFree(cardinal(_new_ACL));
   end;
  finally
   FreeSid(_sid);
   LocalFree(cardinal(_sd))
  end
 end;
end;

                                              
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by: mukhtar2tPosted on 2009-01-13 at 00:32:18ID: 23360826

Hi ciuly and sas13,

Thank you for you support.

sas13,

I am using Turbo Delphi.

What about these variables it seem to be undefined.
SECURITY_WORLD_SID_AUTHORITY
SECURITY_WORLD_RID

 

by: mukhtar2tPosted on 2009-01-13 at 00:36:51ID: 23360841

I want to set full permissions to administrator and one user for each folder under a new profile directory

 

by: sas13Posted on 2009-01-13 at 00:43:37ID: 23360874


const
  SECURITY_WORLD_SID_AUTHORITY: TSidIdentifierAuthority = (Value: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1));
  SECURITY_WORLD_RID = ($00000000);

 

by: mukhtar2tPosted on 2009-01-13 at 00:54:05ID: 23360914

sas13,

I wrote everyone as example but I need to set full permissions to only 2 users, the administrator and another user say user1, but this function sets the permission to many groups.

Thanks

 

by: sas13Posted on 2009-01-13 at 02:25:22ID: 23361256

for administrator:
const
  SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY: TSIDIdentifierAuthority = (Value: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5));
  SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID = $00000020;
  DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS = $00000220;
...
AllocateAndInitializeSid(SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY, 2, SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID, DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, _admin);

for user1 or another you can fill stutcture EXPLICIT_ACCESS for user:

   _ea.grfAccessPermissions := GENERIC_ALL;
   _ea.grfAccessMode := SET_ACCESS;
   _ea.grfInheritance := SUB_CONTAINERS_AND_OBJECTS_INHERIT;
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeForm := TRUSTEE_IS_NAME;
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeType := TRUSTEE_IS_USER;
   _ea.Trustee.ptstrName := 'User1';

 

by: mukhtar2tPosted on 2009-01-13 at 05:42:36ID: 23362398

That script didn't do what I need.

If you execute the below command for the test folder you can notice that there are just administrator and user1 have the full access to that folder and no one else have any permission.

echo y|cacls C:\test /G administrator:F
cacls C:\test /E /G user1:F

That is what I need exactly.

Thank you very much.

 

by: sas13Posted on 2009-01-13 at 06:15:03ID: 23362733

SetEntriesInAcl(1, @_ea, _old_ACL, _new_ACL);
OldAcl
[in] A pointer to the existing ACL. This parameter can be NULL, in which case, the function creates a new ACL based on the EXPLICIT_ACCESS entries. (MSDN)

if you set  _old_ACL to nil, then SetNamedSecurityInfo set permission only for new SID without inherited permissions

pseudocode:

const
  SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY: TSIDIdentifierAuthority = (Value: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5));
  SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID = $00000020;
  DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS = $00000220;
 
function TakeOwnership(const APath: PAnsiChar): boolean;
var
  _ea: EXPLICIT_ACCESS;
  _old_ACL: PACL;
  _new_ACL: PACL;
  _sd: pointer;
  _err: cardinal;
  _token_handle: THandle;
  _priv: TTokenPrivileges;
  _sid: PSID;
begin
 Result := false;
 if OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES or TOKEN_QUERY, _token_handle) then begin
  if LookupPrivilegeValue(nil, PChar('SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege'), _priv.Privileges[0].Luid) then begin
   _priv.PrivilegeCount := 1;
   _priv.Privileges[0].Attributes := SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
   AdjustTokenPrivileges(_token_handle, false, _priv, 0, PTokenPrivileges(nil)^, PDWord(nil)^)
  end;
  if LookupPrivilegeValue(nil, PChar('SeSecurityPrivilege'), _priv.Privileges[0].Luid) then begin
   _priv.PrivilegeCount := 1;
   _priv.Privileges[0].Attributes := SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
   AdjustTokenPrivileges(_token_handle, false, _priv, 0, PTokenPrivileges(nil)^, PDWord(nil)^)
  end;
  CloseHandle(_token_handle)
 end;
  AllocateAndInitializeSid(SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY, 2, SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID, DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, _sid);
 try
  ZeroMemory(@_ea, SizeOf(EXPLICIT_ACCESS));
  _ea.grfAccessPermissions := GENERIC_ALL;
  _ea.grfAccessMode := SET_ACCESS;
  _ea.grfInheritance := SUB_CONTAINERS_AND_OBJECTS_INHERIT;
  _ea.Trustee.TrusteeForm := TRUSTEE_IS_SID;
  _ea.Trustee.TrusteeType := TRUSTEE_IS_WELL_KNOWN_GROUP;
  _ea.Trustee.ptstrName := PChar(_sid);
  _new_ACL := nil;
  _err := SetEntriesInAcl(1, @_ea, nil, _new_ACL);
  if _err = ERROR_SUCCESS then begin
    Result := SetNamedSecurityInfo(APath, SE_FILE_OBJECT, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, nil, nil, _new_ACL, nil) = ERROR_SUCCESS;
    LocalFree(cardinal(_new_ACL));
   end;
  finally
   FreeSid(_sid);
  end
 end;
 if GetNamedSecurityInfo(APath, SE_FILE_OBJECT, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, nil, nil, @_old_ACL, nil, _sd) = ERROR_SUCCESS then begin
  try
   ZeroMemory(@_ea, SizeOf(EXPLICIT_ACCESS));
   _ea.grfAccessPermissions := GENERIC_ALL;
   _ea.grfAccessMode := SET_ACCESS;
   _ea.grfInheritance := SUB_CONTAINERS_AND_OBJECTS_INHERIT;
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeForm := TRUSTEE_IS_NAME;
   _ea.Trustee.TrusteeType := TRUSTEE_IS_USER;
   _ea.Trustee.ptstrName := PChar('User1');
   _new_ACL := nil;
   _err := SetEntriesInAcl(1, @_ea, _old_ACL, _new_ACL);
   if _err = ERROR_SUCCESS then begin
    Result := SetNamedSecurityInfo(APath, SE_FILE_OBJECT, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, nil, nil, _new_ACL, nil) = ERROR_SUCCESS;
    LocalFree(cardinal(_new_ACL));
   end;
  finally
   LocalFree(cardinal(_sd))
  end
 end;
end;
                                              
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