On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Rob Marshall <rob.marshal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to convert a self-relative security descriptor, i.e. the > type that is returned by > win32security.ConvertStringSecurityDescriptorToSecurityDescriptor(), > to an absolute SD but I can't seem to find the MakeAbsoluteSD() > function. Where is it?
A PySECURITY_DESCRIPTOR object is stored in self-relative format. Internally it's converted to absolute format for functions that require it, such as SetSecurityDescriptorDacl. See the source: https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/b223/win32/src/PySECURITY_DESCRIPTOR.cpp _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32