Creating Folders and Security

[Vayse]

Hi
On the company server, there is a folder for each client. This folder should
be named after the Clients 6 digiit ID.
At the moment, the folders are created manually by users. Of course, this
leads to errors.
So I'd like to write a program that creates the folder. Just use
My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory will work fine, except for one issue.
I want to change the permissions on the server so that users can't create
folders manually. This also means the program won't work.
Is there something in VB that I have the program use admin permissions, so
that it will create the folder irrespective of the users rights?

Thanks
Vayse

 

[Guest]

You can't override the security mechanisms of Windows, but, you can use
impersonation with an account with sufficient permissions to create the
directories.

Look into the System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext class.
There are a ton of example online.

Jared

 

[Guest]

Is there something in VB that I have the program use admin
permissions, so that it will create the folder irrespective of the
users rights?

Use impersonation to impersonate an admin account to set the folder
security.