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1. Where to put global application data in Vista?    stackoverflow.com

Where in a Windows (Vista) system should I place data that ought to be readable and writable by everyone, i.e. every user of the computer? Vista's concepts of C:\Users\xxx\AppData\something, C:\Program Files ...

2. Checking for write access in a directory before creating files inside it    stackoverflow.com

My small utility application asks the user for an output directory via a GUI file selector. Then it creates a lot of files in this output directory after some processing. I need to ...

3. How to create a folder in a directory where user need admin permission    stackoverflow.com

Hi I need to put some files in some directory which myself as a user have no rights but for administrator has rights. In this case I want my program should ...

4. how can i get the file permission of a directory with java    stackoverflow.com

i try to check the permission granted to a directory in linux, i mean i have a directory with permission 755

berty@berty-laptop:~$ ls -l / |grep directory
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root ...

5. How to check write permissions of a directory in java?    stackoverflow.com

I would like a code snippet that checks whether a directory has read/write permissions and do something if it does, and does something else if it doesnt. I tried an example ...

6. What is the best way to check file creation permissions in java    stackoverflow.com

I need to check for file creation permissions for specific directory. I've tried:

try {
    AccessController.checkPermission(new FilePermission("directory_path", "write"));
    // Have permission
} catch (SecurityException e) {
   ...

7. Check Directory Permissions    coderanch.com

I'm trying to figure out how you would check to see if a user has access to a directory or file object. I know you can do: File f = new File("C:\\path"); f.canRead(); but this checks if the application can read a directory. Is there a way if I had a user's NT username and password to check the access permissions ...

8. Permissions of Folder    coderanch.com

9. how to set folder permissions    coderanch.com

10. permission to create file in directory    forums.oracle.com

That's fine though. 1. Create File object representing directory. 2. Ask if directory exists. Assuming it does... 3. Create File object representing file to be created 4. Ask if it has write permission. If 4 passes you have write permission for the file in the directory. Otherwise you don't. There's a replacement for File forthcoming (hopefully) in Java 7 that will ...

11. Get directory permissions in unix like form    forums.oracle.com

Hi! I've searched a lot for a solution to this but can find something. I want to see all the permissions that the user who is running an application has on certain directory. Some time ago I saw a simple application that gives that in a unix like form: -dr-w-x owner file ..... I want something like that. I know that ...

12. Folder and File Permission Software    forums.oracle.com

Of course not I'm a network administrator at our company and I want to see which user has access to which folder and I'm pretty sure java is not able to break into windows security without supplying a password so as long as I supply the password it doesnt make it unethical. What i want is simply to see which user ...