Reading the access attributes of directories in Windows

[Tim Golden]

On 19/08/2010 9:17 PM, vsoler wrote:
> On Aug 19, 8:55 pm, Tim Golden<m... at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
>> On 19/08/2010 4:55 PM, vsoler wrote:
>>
>>> I need to read, for each of the directories in a shared file server
>>> unit, who has access to the directories and what type of access
>>> privileges.
>>
>>> This is something that I can easily do interactively in my Windows
>>> Document Explorer by right clicking a single directory, clicking on
>>> Properties, then on Security.
>>
>>> There I can see the Users and Group of Users that have access to the
>>> selected directory, as well as the type of access to that directory
>>> (Read/Write/eXecute etc.)
>>
>> Here you have one of those occasions when the Windows GUI does
>> a very good job of presenting a simplified but perfectly usable
>> interface layer on top of a moderately complex security scheme.
>>
>> It's not as easy as you think.
>>
>>> I've been looking in the "os" library, and found the "os.chmod" method
>>> but I am not sure that it is going to give me what I need. Should I
>>> also used library "stat"?
>>
>> No. Both of these are basically doing a best-endeavours job of mapping
>> certain Windows attributes to some Posix equivalent. They're essentially
>> useless for anything beyond the most trivial tasks.
>>
>> Have a read here which will at least put you on the path of knowing
>> what terminology you need to search for:
>>
>>     http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/add-security-to-a-file.html
>>     http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-the-owner-of-a-file....
>>
>> and if you're interested, this is the kind of thing my winsys
>> package is reasonably good at:
>>
>>     http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winsys/security.html#module-security
>>
>> TJG
>
> Thank you very much, Tim, for your answer.
>
> It looks as though it is going to suit my needs.
>
> Your file WinSys-0.4.win32-py2.5.msi is obviously for python 2.5 and
> 2.6.
> File WinSys-0.4.zip should be for the same versions of Python,
> probably.
> What about your WinSys-0.5beta.win32.exe file? is it for python 3?
>
> I currently have python 3 in my pc. Do I need to install a previous
> version of python?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Vicente Soler

I have a subversion branch for Python 3. If you have subversion
access, try:

   http://winsys.googlecode.com/svn/branches/py3k

and do the python setup.py install dance.

If you can't get that working, let me know and I'll publish
an installer somewhere.

TJG