Re: [Tutor] Communicating with Win2000 runas.exe
[Tim Golden] | [Barnaby Scott] | | | So I'm thinking along these lines: | | | | import subprocess | | sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe | | /user:administrator | | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe') | | #some sort of code to send the password here... | | #help! | | I *think* -- and I'm happy to be wrong -- that there's | no way you're going to get that password in there. One | place to start looking might be: | | pywinauto - http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com/ | | which lets you automate Windows in general; don't know | how much use it'll be here. [Barnaby Scott] | Thanks for your tips. In fact the first link you gave put me onto | Sendkeys (http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/), which is a | prerequisite for pywinauto. In the end that was all I needed. In case | anyone else is interested here is my code now (with SendKeys | installed): Excellent! I'm glad it turned out to be so easy, and thanks for posting the code and the link. TJG This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Communicating with Win2000 runas.exe
I have a problem which I was hoping that Python could solve for me, but I have become stuck for days now after only 2 lines of code. My son has a Microsoft game on a shared family computer, which Microsoft in its infinite wisdom requires you to run as 'administrator'. Call me old-fashioned but I don't want to promote an 8 year-old to administrator just so he can run his game! Enter 'runas.exe'... However, because we are on Windows 2000, runas does not allow you to save a password - it has to be entered every time: not much further forward. So I'm thinking along these lines: import subprocess sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe /user:administrator C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe') #some sort of code to send the password here... #help! Sure enough, this brings up a prompt asking for the administrator's password, but I can't get anything to work in terms of getting the script to provide the password. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Any clues would be gratefully received. (Even if I do get this to work, my next trick is to hide the password from any prying eyes looking at the script...) Thanks Barnaby Scott ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Communicating with Win2000 runas.exe
[Barnaby Scott] | So I'm thinking along these lines: | | import subprocess | sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe | /user:administrator | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe') | #some sort of code to send the password here... | #help! I *think* -- and I'm happy to be wrong -- that there's no way you're going to get that password in there. One place to start looking might be: pywinauto - http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com/ which lets you automate Windows in general; don't know how much use it'll be here. Alternatively, look into the pywin32 package, and in particular at the win32security functions which let you impersonate another user. They're not trivial to use, but their use has been explained a few times over the years I think. Mostly by Roger Upole who wrote most if not all of the Python bindings. Here's a post which looks useful; you'll have to hunt around for others: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/6bbefb9d4d45d253 I suggest you ask this question again on the main python / python-win32 lists; it's a bit too platform-specific for the tutor list, I would say. TJG This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Communicating with Win2000 runas.exe
Tim Golden wrote:
[Barnaby Scott]
| So I'm thinking along these lines:
|
| import subprocess
| sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe
| /user:administrator
| C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe')
| #some sort of code to send the password here...
| #help!
I *think* -- and I'm happy to be wrong -- that there's
no way you're going to get that password in there. One
place to start looking might be:
pywinauto - http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com/
which lets you automate Windows in general; don't know
how much use it'll be here.
Alternatively, look into the pywin32 package, and in
particular at the win32security functions which let you
impersonate another user. They're not trivial to use,
but their use has been explained a few times over the
years I think. Mostly by Roger Upole who wrote most if
not all of the Python bindings.
Here's a post which looks useful; you'll have to hunt
around for others:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/6bbefb9d4d45d253
I suggest you ask this question again on the main
python / python-win32 lists; it's a bit too platform-specific
for the tutor list, I would say.
TJG
Thanks for your tips. In fact the first link you gave put me onto
Sendkeys (http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/), which is a
prerequisite for pywinauto. In the end that was all I needed. In case
anyone else is interested here is my code now (with SendKeys installed):
import subprocess, SendKeys
subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\system32\runas.exe /user:administrator
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe')
SendKeys.SendKeys('{PAUSE 1}MyAdministratorPassword{ENTER}')
Worth knowing about - might be quite useful for all sorts of things,
however 'quick and dirty' it feels as a technique!
Thanks again
BDS
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