Accessing the ACL of a file?

From: Christopher Zacharias (czacharias@logicalsolutions.net)
Date: 07/26/02 

From: "Christopher Zacharias" <czacharias@logicalsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:05:09 -0700

Bottom line: Is it possible to query the ACL for a given
file to determine if a given user has read permissions for
the file without having to open the file or request the
file?

I made a post earlier about trying to predict whether a
user will have access to a resource. I figured that maybe
I should rephrase (after learning more about the subject)
what specifically I mean.

I would like to be able to dynamically hide controls and
links to resources that a user does not have access to.
That way, instead of seeing them and getting an "Access
Denied" error when trying to request them, the users would
simply never see the links to the resource to begin with.

Thanks.

- Christopher Zacharias
 

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