Cacls syntax in C.

Hey guys,

I'm writing a C program that uses the cacls function a command line to change permissions on folders. I don't know how to do this in C though.
Anyone know how to do this? The post I found here addressing the same question had a broken link:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplus...509-cacls.html
I've tried a few things, but I am getting errors.

Thank you.

The original link points here, though it doesn't tell you how to use cacls. It tells you, amongst other things, how to do what cacls does so you don't need it.

Is there anyway to directly type into a command line from C?
Like the old post, I don't know how to use the systems function with cacls.

if you can type the command you want at a command line, then you can issue the same command from C using

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system("<whatever you typed>");

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But what if I need quotation marks in the command line? For example:

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system( "cacls c:/users/dummy/desktop/testfolder /E /G "person who puts spaces in name":F" ) ;

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It actually unquotes the entire name from the command.

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Originally Posted by MRIce

But what if I need quotation marks in the command line? For example:

Code:

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system( "cacls c:/users/dummy/desktop/testfolder /E /G "person who puts spaces in name":F" ) ;

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It actually unquotes the entire name from the command.

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You need a backslash \ before the inner quotes.

Thank you so much.