More elegant way to obtain ACLs / permissions for windows directories than using "cacls" dos command?

[Roger Upole]

dananrg at yahoo.com wrote:
> Is there a standard library module in Python 2.4 (Win32) that will
> return directory permissions / ACLs (e.g. users, groups, and what
> rights they have)?
>
> Otherwise, I'm faced with sending "cacls dirName" commands via os.popen
> as below, and then parsing and comparing the text output.
>
> Basically, I'd like to compare what the ACLs a directory should have
> against what the actual ACLs are.
>
> Here's what I started with:
>
> import os           # Cross-platform filesystem manipulation
>
> rootDir = "S:\someRootDirectoryHere"
>
> print "*** Printing DIRECTORY names beneath directory " + rootDir + "
> ***\n"
> for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(rootDir):
>    for dirNm in dirnames:
>        theDirPath = os.path.join(dirpath, dirNm)
>        print '"' + theDirPath +'"'
>        # cacls needs double-quotes around space-containing paths
>        result = os.popen("cacls " + '"' + theDirPath + '"')
>        # Print the security info (ACLs)for specified directory
>        print result.read()
>
> Thanks.

The win32security module from Pywin32 wraps the functions used to
read and change security descriptors.

                Roger





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