[Box Backup-dev] Windows ACLs

Charles Lecklider boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Sun Feb 26 23:05:52 GMT 2006


Ben Summers wrote:
> Can't you use a Windows API to serialise and deserialise the ACLs?

Not if you want to stand a chance of applying them on a machine other
than the original, no.

The only time I can see storing Windows ACLs has any use is if you want
to backup an entire machine so that you can restore it as a whole later,
and I'm not at all sure that's a role for Box.

-C




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