Getting File And Directory Owners

[Sharper_Software]

I have noticed not a lot of people know how to get the basic IO.file Owner information of a file/dir so i will show an example that you can play around with.


'Required for The Directory Query.
'Required for The NT User Account Query.

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Security
Imports System.Security.Principal

Just Add this to a form, and add a reference to it in the form load events or a button event.

Public sub getowner()
          Try
                Dim Target_Dir as string
                Dim di As New DirectoryInfo(Target_Dir)
                Dim ds As AccessControl.DirectorySecurity = di.GetAccessControl()
                Dim owner As NTAccount = CType(ds.GetOwner(GetType(NTAccount)), NTAccount)
                msgbox("File Owner: " & owner.ToString)
            Catch ex As Exception
                msgbox("File Owner Error: " & ex.Message)
            End Try
end sub

Hope this helps anyone who is looking.

Cheers

-Sharper Software
The Future Of Network Defense Systems, Today.

[Jarryd]

Nice work on this man,