I found this very interesting article about exceptions. You should read “Ten Things (or more) You Might Not Know About Exception Handling in Delphi” (or get it from  Google Cache) and learn why exception inheritance ist important. The same reason applies to the exceptions of the JWSCL. EJwsclSecurityException is the main exception inherited from [...]

The JEDI API & Security Libraries are now listed in ohloh. Ohloh is a software directory that analyzes and monitors open source software development activity.
Get to the JEDI project on ohloh directly.
The following analyzed statements must be corrected:

Short source control history
The JEDI API is a very old lady. However, not a long time ago [...]

This is the road map of JWA and JWSCL for the year 2008.

Add and test Rudy Velthuis headers for Delphi to JWA (done but needs review)
Implement COM interfaces and classes for JWSCL
Implement new Winsta (Terminal Service) declarations for JWA and JWSCL
Convert embedded source documentation to Doc-o-Matic (of course buy that nice software) (JWSCL)
Create tons of [...]

Whenever you impersonate a running thread and create a new thread while impersonating, your new thread will not get impersonated, too. The new thread will run without any thread token and thus a called function will use the process token instead. So you have to impersonate the new thread again. Ignoring that fact may [...]

Many people add a “requireAdministrator” manifest to their Application to get elevation in Vista. However this is not needed all the time so there is a second way that allows to elevate even in Windows XP.
The solution is to restart the application with ShellExecute and the “runas” verb. In Vista you’ll get the elevation prompt, [...]

This simple code excerpt can only be run under SYSTEM account (say in a service). It retrieves the token from the logged on user - especially the user at the physical console. Or in other words the user data of the person that sits in front of the computer. The main code which does the [...]

This is just an index of available units of the JEDI Windows Security Code Library. Find out more about these units in the corresponding help documentation by clicking on it. The help is also available from the JWSCL doc site. And if you seek an offline version with search function, download it directly from [...]

The order of access control elements in an access control list is the following:

explicit Deny elements
explicit Allow elements
inherited Deny elements
inherited Deny elements

It is also called the canonical order.

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This discussion continues How to use a SecurityAttribute structure.
Last time we used the SecurityAttribute parameter in CreateFile to change the security descriptor of the newly created file. However this approach did not add inherited access control elements from the parent folder. We are about to change that.
Filesystem and Registry-key inheritance is implemented since Windows 2000 [...]

It is impossible to use SetThreadDesktop and the VCL at the same time because a thread can only show windows on one desktop at a time. However VCL is not written for the use with multiple threads, so there is no way to show Delphi forms of same process on two different desktops. SetThreadDesktop [...]