[Mono-list] Does System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission work?

[Yawar Amin]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Andy Hume <andyhume32 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This is actually /not/ what CAS is for, remember that it is *Code*
> Access Security.  That is, it is orthogonal to *Role* Access Security.
> As a user I run some .NET code in my web browser, *I* (logged in as Role
> "user1" say) have full rights to do anything with files in my home
> directory (chmod etc shows that), however I don't trust the *Code* that
> I'm downloading and running, so *it* has no rights to do anything with
> files at all.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Sebastien Pouliot
<sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>  You're mixing two different concepts in there.
>
>  One is CAS[1], where permissions are policy based and applied on the
>  code being executed. The runtime is responsible to enforce this.
>
>         [1] mono does not support CAS, see wiki.
>
>  The second is access control, where a resource is protected based on the
>  user (not code) identity. The OS is responsible to enforce this.
>
>  >From the results you seem to expect you're looking into access control
>  (which are not cross-platform). I believe you'll find everything you
>  need in the Mono.Posix.dll assembly.
>
>
>  Sebastien
>
>

Hi Andy & Sebastien,

Thanks for the clarification. I've rolled my own check for write
access by just trying to create a file in the directory and seeing if
it succeeds or fails.

Yawar