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xcacls and VB variable

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punta30

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Dec 18, 2002
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AU
I have a vbscript that adds user accounts in bulk. However I need to modify home directory permissions from within the script. I can do it when xcacls has a real user name in the command line. My query is can xcacls execute a VB variable?

The following is part of my script:

'Create user's home folder
objUser.GetInfo
strHomePath = "\\Server01\home\"
Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strHomePath _
& StrUserID)
'home folder permissions
dim wsh
set wsh = Wscript.createobject("Wscript.Shell")
cmdline = "xcacls d:\userdata\home\Don_Jones /P administrators:F /Y"
Return = wsh.run(cmdline,0,true)
cmdline = "xcacls d:\userdata\home\Don_Jones /E /G Don_Jones:F /Y"
Return = wsh.run(cmdline,0,true)

This works OK with the actual user name Don_Jones. Is there a method to have xcacls execute the variable strUserID instead of the actual user name Don_Jones??

Is xcacls the way to go??
 
cmdline = "xcacls d:\userdata\home\" & strUserId & " /P administrators:F /Y"
 
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