Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home
> directories.
> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> user by providing its username + password:
>
> def get_homedir(username, password):
> token = win32security.LogonUser(
> username,
> None,
> password,
> win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> )
> return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
>
>
> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> the pwd module and providing the username only:
>
> >>> import pwd
> >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> '/home/user'
>
> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
but it seems not. According to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx
it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
seems to work:
(uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
<code>
import _winreg
import win32api
import wmi
#
# Use the current username in DOM\USER format
#
USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
HKLM = 0x80000002
profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
sid = account.SID
break
else:
raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
"ProfileImagePath"
)
print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
</code>
TJG
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