Create a new directory with sane security as another directory

[Chaim Budnick]

How do I easily create a new directory with the same security settings as another directory in the same root directory?

Chaim

[Willem Grooters · Accepted solution]

Chaim,

$ SET DEFAULT
$ OWN=f$FILE_ATTRIBUTES (".DIR","UIC")
$ PRO=f$FILE_ATTRIBUTES (".DIR","PRO")
$ CREATE/DIRECTORY/OWNER='OWN'/PROTECTION='PRO' .DIR
$ SET SECURITY/LIKE=.DIR .DIR

OWN and PRO can be found interactively by dir:
$ DIR/SEC /DIR

SET SECURITY is not required if old directory doesn't hold an ACL.

Willem

[Bojan Nemec]

Chaim,

This command will copy all the security attributes (ACL,owner and protection).

$ SET SECURITY/COPY_ATTRIBUTE=ALL/LIKE=old.dir new.dir

If you have ACEs which have the nopropagate
attribute, you must enter them by hand, because they are not copied.

Bojan

[Martin Vorlaender]

Willem, Bojan,

a minor nit (that hits me as well all the time ;-)

The syntax is

$ SET SECURITY /LIKE=NAME=old new

cu,
Martin

[Jan van den Ende]

Martin,

maybe I will do even more 'nitting'.

$ SET SECURITY /LIKE=NAME=old new


Yes, that IS correct... at VMS V7.3 & up.

For older versions, use

$ SET SECURITY new /LIKE=OBJECT_NAME=old
( param new is not positional, may also appear at end of line)

I always thought it a very clumsy syntax, especially since /OBJECT_NAME was only unique at char #8, there is/was also a qualifier /OBJECT_TYPE

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Uwe Zessin]

On pretty old systems we had to do:
$ set file /acl /like=

And on _really_ old systems we didn't have ACLs...

[Dale A. Marcy]

You could also use backup:

$ backup disk:[parent_dir]old.dir disk:[parent_dir]new.dir/by_owner=original

Where parent_dir is either 000000 or the directory above the directory to be replicated.