Roger Upole wrote:
> raf wrote:
> > Roger Upole wrote:
> >>
> >> win32security.LookupAccountName will give you the complete sid for a
> >> username.
> >
> > if you look at the code i supplied, you'll see that that is precisely
> > where i get the sid from:
> >
> > sid =
> > win32security.Convert
raf wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
>
>> raf wrote:
>>
>> > so my questions are:
>> > did the sid for the account name ever uniquely identify the user?
>>
>> Yes. In fact it's the only way, since you can change the login name of an
>> account.
>>
>> > how do i obtain the "1009" that needs to be appen
raf wrote:
>
> if you look at the code i supplied, you'll see that that is precisely
> where i get the sid from:
>
> sid =
> win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid(win32security.LookupAccountName(None,
> username)[0])
>
> so win32security.LookupAccountName is not giving me the complete sid for the
Roger Upole wrote:
> raf wrote:
>
> > so my questions are:
> > did the sid for the account name ever uniquely identify the user?
>
> Yes. In fact it's the only way, since you can change the login name of an
> account.
>
> > how do i obtain the "1009" that needs to be appended to the sid
> > to
raf wrote:
> so my questions are:
> did the sid for the account name ever uniquely identify the user?
Yes. In fact it's the only way, since you can change the login name of an
account.
> how do i obtain the "1009" that needs to be appended to the sid
> to complete it?
win32security.LookupAccou