C# - List Folder Permissions / Compare / Write to File

Question

I have a problem with another Administrator giving certain members permissions there not allowed to have.

I want to create a script that will Scan the Home folder directory looking at the folder permissions for each users Home folder. If the users permissions do not match to read/write only then write the account name and folder path to a log file.

I have only moderate knowledge in C# and would like to ask about how one would accomplish this task roughly.

--Thanks

Isaac · Answer

There are a number of ways to do this depending on how you have your folders set up. You can modify this to iterate through the directories recursively if they are all on a share or something but the simplest way I can think of to get rights on a folder is with DirectorySecurity and FileSytemAccessRule. Try this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Security.AccessControl; using System.Security.Principal; namespace FolderPermissions { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { DirectorySecurity dSecurity = Directory .GetAccessControl( @c:\EmailParse ); foreach ( FileSystemAccessRule rule in dSecurity.GetAccessRules( true  true  typeof ( NTAccount ))) { Console .WriteLine( Account:{0}
Rights:{1}  rule.IdentityReference.Value rule.FileSystemRights.ToString()); } Console .ReadLine(); } } }

Shaun McLellan · Answer

Disreguard the last post i got it to output to a text file :) TY for you help!!!!

Shaun McLellan · Answer

Thank you this works just the way I want it to except how would you make it dump all of the info into a text file instead of just reporting to the console?