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Hi. I was wondering if anyone has any idea how to prevent Windows user to delete and create folders / files in a specific path and its sub-folders.

I'm using a python script to create a specific folder structure (based on Git-Repositories).

The aim is to keep users from altering this structure. They are allowed to create and delete folders / files on the "lowest" levels of this folder structure (so they can work within this framework).

I've already tried setting a command using the subprocess library:

cmd = f'icacls "{D:\Git}" /deny Everyone:(WD,AD) /T /C /L /Q'
subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)

But this doesn't seem to do anything. When I try to execute the command in a cmd-window I just get an error message that 0 Files haven been changed and one error occured.

I create the folders iterative. So I could use a specific command for each and every folder - should something like this exist.

Any help would be very appreciated!

The Operating System and File System manages Access Rights to directories and files. On Windows, it's called ACL. Doing this on Linux is easier, because you have lesser settings.

I found some info here: https://windowsforum.com/threads/python-...ost-894609

Here is a gist which shows the use of win32security (from pywin32): https://gist.github.com/cbwar/fee1bfbe0e...0eeae36bd3
The use of os.chmod is useless on Windows. Windows just ignores this setting, but the ACL flags aren't ignored.

Python-Wiki: https://wiki.python.org/moin/HelpOnAccessControlLists