C# - Set Directory Permissions for All Users in Windows 7

Question

This should be a fairly simple problem, but for some reason I can\'t seem to get this to work. All I\'d like to do is set the permissions on a given directory to allow full

Answer 1

David Heffernan answer does not work on a non-English machine, where trying to set the permissions on "Users" fails with an IdentityNotMapped exception. The following code will work everywhere, by using WellKnownSidType.BuiltinUsersSid instead:

static void SetFullControlPermissionsToEveryone(string path)
{
    const FileSystemRights rights = FileSystemRights.FullControl;

    var allUsers = new SecurityIdentifier(WellKnownSidType.BuiltinUsersSid, null);

    // Add Access Rule to the actual directory itself
    var accessRule = new FileSystemAccessRule(
        allUsers,
        rights,
        InheritanceFlags.None,
        PropagationFlags.NoPropagateInherit,
        AccessControlType.Allow);

    var info = new DirectoryInfo(path);
    var security = info.GetAccessControl(AccessControlSections.Access);

    bool result;
    security.ModifyAccessRule(AccessControlModification.Set, accessRule, out result);

    if (!result)
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to give full-control permission to all users for path " + path);
    }

    // add inheritance
    var inheritedAccessRule = new FileSystemAccessRule(
        allUsers,
        rights,
        InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit,
        PropagationFlags.InheritOnly,
        AccessControlType.Allow);

    bool inheritedResult;
    security.ModifyAccessRule(AccessControlModification.Add, inheritedAccessRule, out inheritedResult);

    if (!inheritedResult)
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to give full-control permission inheritance to all users for " + path);
    }

    info.SetAccessControl(security);
}