The accompanying sample demonstrates how to take ownership of a file or directory. To succeed, one or more of the following conditions must be satisfied:
 | you have WRITE_OWNER access, and you are assigning ownership to yourself, and you are not the administrator account (i.e., your SID is not S-1-5-32-500), or |
| you have enabled SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege, and you are assigning ownership to yourself, and you are not the administrator account (i.e., your SID is not S-1-5-32-500), or |
| you have enabled SeRestorePrivilege. In this case, you can assign ownership to any SID that you take a fancy to. |
The sample was written using my fksec classes; not counting error handling and reporting, the actual meat of the code consists of three lines: fksec::GetFileSecurity(), fksec::sd::SetOwnerSid(), and fksec::SetFileSecurity(). If you choose to enable privileges, you can add fksec::priv::Enable() to that list.
ownership.cpp, 5 KB