Re: chmod 600 equivalent for MS Windows

From: Bruno Rino <brino-at-eso.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:21:42 +0200


on a windows command prompt,

attrib -R filename

does the trick

Cheers,
Bruno

On 14/07/2008 17:18, Mark Taylor wrote:
> If there's anyone out there who knows about Microsoft Windows,
>
> (I'm hoping Luigi might, since he was able to answer about %USERPROFILE%)
>
> I'm writing Java code which should ensure that the .samp lockfile
> cannot be read by anyone other than the owner of that file.
> Although there is a method
>
> java.io.File.setReadable()
>
> in Java which can do the trick, it is only available from Java 1.6,
> and I'd like to provide a fallback for earlier JVMs.
>
> On Un*x I can call out to the OS and invoke a command like:
>
> Runtime.exec( new String[] { "chmod", "600", filename } );
>
> Does anybody know if this is possible for some/any/all versions of
> MS Windows, and if so, how I should phrase the command?
>
> thanks
>
> Mark
>
Received on 2008-07-14Z17:21:41