WindowsNT user authentication

[billie]

On 12 Feb, 16:53, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> billie wrote:
> > Do you got any idea about how getting user's home directory?
>
> The answer to that is unfortunately slightly complicated,
> because Windows has no such thing as a "user's home directory"
> or, if you prefer, it has several such things.
>
> If you want, you can let Python make the decision, by
> calling os.path.expanduser on "~" which, in my case,
> correctly gives h:\ which is my domain home directory.
>
> Obviously this is not necessarily the same as my Documents
> and Settings directory, which can also be considered a home
> directory. That you can get by querying the shell:
>
> <code>
> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>
> idlist = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_PERSONAL)
> documents_and_settings = shell.SHGetPathFromIDList (idlist)
> print documents_and_settings
>
> </code>
>
> In my case they are the same but that will depend on your
> setup. I know in the past at least one of these has
> defaulted to c:\
>
> Alternatives (which in my case amount to the same thing)
> include using the HOMEDRIVE / HOMEPATH / HOMESHARE
> environment vars:
>
> <code>
> import os
> drive = os.environ.get ("HOMEDRIVE", "")
> path = os.environ.get ("HOMEPATH", "")
>
> share = os.environ.get ("HOMESHARE", "")
>
> print drive+path
> print share
> </code>
>
> I haven't bothered to look, but I think this latter
> is how the expanduser function works things out.
>
> YMMV
> TJG

Thanks.