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Hi NG,

Can someone explain to me why it seems that I must write hundreds of lines
of code to perform the following three simple functions... Maybe I am doing
this all wrong....

1.  Check if the current user has sufficient permissions to write to, delete
and create a file in a particular location.

2. Check if the current user has sufficient permissions to write to, delete
and create registry keys in a particular location.

3. Grant all users permission to do above two things.

I am beginning to think that for #1 and #2 it might be easier to just simply
try these operations and assume if any of them fail - that sufficient
permissions do not exist for the current user.  And for #3 it looks like all
I may need to do is set a NULL DACL for the object (several lines of code
but more manageable and less prone to error).

Can you point me at some sample C++ source that would help me simplify this?
I have found several sources myself - but delving inside - they all
immediately explode in a cacophony of low level security API that seems to
be waaaaay overboard for the three simple things I want to do... One source
I found seemed to do what I wanted - but it was over 1000 bloody lines -
just to do the first two things!  Maybe MS never wanted this to be simple?

PS: I need to statically link in to a single module, so external modules
(like the "SetACL" ocx) are not appropriate.

Thanks.
Frustrated.