2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > 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? > > > > Did you try: > > > > import os > > os.path.expanduser('~user') >
It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for: >>> os.path.expanduser('~') 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex' >>> os.path.expanduser('~user') '~user' >>> _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32