Folder of file's permission inheritance

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How to determine what folder (if relevant) that a file's permissions are
inherited from?

In a file's properties, the security tab has an Advanced button. That shows
details of the file's permissions. In there is an "Inherited From" column.
How can that data be obtained using WMI?

I have written a VB 6 program that gets the Win32_LogicalFileSecuritySetting
for a file, then calls GetSecurityDescriptor for it. I can display the
DACL's AccessMask, AceFlags and AceType. I can display the Domain, Name and
SIDString from the DACL's ACE's Trustee. I do not know, however, how to
determine the folder that the file's permissions are inherited from (when
inherited).

Perhaps it would be possible to figure out if I knew more about security,
but I did take a quick look and it is not obvious. I was hoping that I could
use WMI without getting into the details of what WMI does.

Is it possible to use WMI to get the folder that the file inherits
permissions from?


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