permview(1) Viewer for declarative security permission sets inside assemblies.

SYNOPSIS

permview [options] assembly

DESCRIPTION

This tools allow to list the declarative security attributes present in an assembly. The security attributes are either found on the assembly level, on the classes and the methods. This tool is useful to diagnose why an assembly won't load or why some class/method throws SecurityException.

OPTIONS

-output filename
Output all declarative security attributes related informations into the specified file.
-xml | --xml | /XML
Output all declarative security attributes in an XML format.
-decl | --decl | /DECL
Show declarative security attributes on classes and methods. The default, without the -decl option, is to show only the assembly level permission sets.
-? | /? | -h[elp] | /h[elp]
Display help informations about the permview tool.

EXAMPLES

permview mscorlib.dll
This will show the minimum, optional and refused permissions sets (i.e. the assembly level security actions) that are compiled inside the mscorlib assembly.
permview -decl permview.exe
This will show all (assembly, class or method level) declarative security attributes present in the permview.exe assembly.

AUTHOR

Written by Sebastien Pouliot

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)

WEB SITE

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