Summary

With all the complexity that makes up the Win32 security system, it is amazing that Perl can keep up with it. But by leveraging the Win32::Perms and Win32::Lanman extensions, not only can you set permissions on files and directories, you can also modify all sorts of other secured objects and manage privileges and policies as well.

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