OT - file permission checks on Windows

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:32:12 -0600, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>    >> Is the permission model there even remotely similar to what I'm used
>    >> to on Unix systems?
>
>    Thomas> No, I don't think so.
>
>I was afraid of that.
>
>    >> I poked around posixmodule.c, but it makes next to no use of uids and
>    >> gids.  As far as I can tell, Windows doesn't know about uid_t or
>    >> gid_t, though it has a struct _stat type whose st_uid and st_gid
>    >> fields are shorts, so I can work around the missing types.
>
>    Thomas> st_uid and st_gid are always set zo zero under Win NT:
>    Thomas> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__stat.2c_._wstat.2c_._stati64.2c_._wstati64.asp
>
>Thanks for the pointer.  This takes me someplace weird in the msdn website,
>most likely because I'm using Opera instead of MSIE.  I'll have to fiddle
>with that a bit I think.
>
>    Thomas> Are you maybe looking for the _access function?
>    Thomas> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__access.2c_._waccess.asp
>
>Perhaps.  On Unix, definitely not.
>
Maybe have a look at GetFileSecurity & related, which is supported by NT (not 95/98).
It'll lead you to security descriptor info etc. Find it via MSVC++6 help>Index... and
type GetFileSecurity in the slot. There's a lot of 'see also' and other functions in the group.

Maybe Mark Hammond knows of some real python experience with it. (I don't).
HTH

Regards,
Bengt Richter