On 19/08/2010 9:17 PM, vsoler wrote:
On Aug 19, 8:55 pm, Tim Golden<m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
On 19/08/2010 4:55 PM, vsoler wrote:
I need to read, for each of the directories in a shared file server
unit, who has access to the directories and what type of access
privileges.
This is something that I can easily do interactively in my Windows
Document Explorer by right clicking a single directory, clicking on
Properties, then on Security.
There I can see the Users and Group of Users that have access to the
selected directory, as well as the type of access to that directory
(Read/Write/eXecute etc.)
Here you have one of those occasions when the Windows GUI does
a very good job of presenting a simplified but perfectly usable
interface layer on top of a moderately complex security scheme.
It's not as easy as you think.
I've been looking in the "os" library, and found the "os.chmod" method
but I am not sure that it is going to give me what I need. Should I
also used library "stat"?
No. Both of these are basically doing a best-endeavours job of mapping
certain Windows attributes to some Posix equivalent. They're essentially
useless for anything beyond the most trivial tasks.
Have a read here which will at least put you on the path of knowing
what terminology you need to search for:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/add-security-to-a-file.html
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-the-owner-of-a-file....
and if you're interested, this is the kind of thing my winsys
package is reasonably good at:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winsys/security.html#module-security
TJG
Thank you very much, Tim, for your answer.
It looks as though it is going to suit my needs.
Your file WinSys-0.4.win32-py2.5.msi is obviously for python 2.5 and
2.6.
File WinSys-0.4.zip should be for the same versions of Python,
probably.
What about your WinSys-0.5beta.win32.exe file? is it for python 3?
I currently have python 3 in my pc. Do I need to install a previous
version of python?
Thank you for your help
Vicente Soler
I have a subversion branch for Python 3. If you have subversion
access, try:
http://winsys.googlecode.com/svn/branches/py3k
and do the python setup.py install dance.
If you can't get that working, let me know and I'll publish
an installer somewhere.
TJG
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