Access Control and Object Creation

Active Directory will fail to create a child object if the caller does not have the ADS_RIGHT_DS_CREATE_CHILD for that object type on the parent container. To determine the types of child objects that the caller can create in a directory object, read the object's allowedChildClassesEffective attribute.

When you use the IADsContainer::Create method to create a child object, the object is not made persistent until IADs::SetInfo is called on the new object. Between the Create and SetInfo calls, the creating thread can put values into any of the new object's properties. After the SetInfo call, the creating thread does not necessarily have the access rights to set the new object's properties. To ensure that the caller has these rights, specify an explicit security descriptor during creation. The DACL should have an ACE that gives the caller the necessary access rights on the object.

For more information about access control and object creation, see How Security Descriptors are Set on New Directory Objects.