raf wrote: > ages ago i wrote some code to get a user's home directory on windows > (even if they'd gone into the registry and moved it). i remember it > working when i wrote it but at some point it stopped working. when i > looked into it, it turned out that the registry subkeys no longer > looked like what the code was expecting. > ... > given the account sid: > > S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115
That's not an account SID, that's a logon session (S-1-5-5). Did you perhaps copy-and-paste this by typing it by hand? If you eliminate the extra -5 (so, S-1-5-21-xxx), then it would be a domain SID. It's still not a user account SID -- that requires one more set of digits, as you found below. > however, instead of the above registry key, there are: > > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1003 > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1004 > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1005 > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1006 > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1008 > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-5-21-725345543-1957994488-859522115-1009 > > each referring to a different user (patricia happens to be the one ending in > 1009). Right. Those are user accounts within the domain or local group S-1-5-21-...-859522115. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
