Daniel Nogradi wrote: > I have next to zero experience with windows but as far as I know > windows doesn't have file permissions at all (anyone, please correct > me if I'm wrong :)) so in windows land it doesn't make any sense to > "change file permissions".
Actually Windows has a quite good permission scheme, with full owner/group ACLs and granular permissions for read, write, append, delete, and several others I can't recall. The problem is no one uses them much. The manipulation tools are a pain, and developers routinely ignore them (including Microsoft's own developers, although I hear they've gotten much better lately). > I guess so. But that's not a terribly big problem even if you can't > use ssh. What I would do is write a script (in python of course :)) > that does the file permission changing and run that script over the > web. Since this can have serious security implications my strategy > would be to place this script somewhere which is not reachable through > the web and only relocate it to a web accessible directory when you > want to run it over the web, and when you are done, you place it back > to its secure location so nobody can reach it. You're right about the security concerns, but your solution sounds like more trouble than it's worth. With a bit more effort, you could write a local python script that acts as an ftp client and applies permissions remotely. But why bother when a good ftp client already has that built-in (and is much less likely to contain destructive bugs). > You can find out how to > write this script from http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html You're worried about security and you turn a novice with a scripting language loose in the briar patch of unix permissions, on a remote server no less? And I thought I was sadistic! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
