Reading the access attributes of directories in Windows

[vsoler]

On Aug 19, 10:59 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 19/08/2010 9:17 PM, vsoler wrote:
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> > On Aug 19, 8:55 pm, Tim Golden<m... at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
> >> On 19/08/2010 4:55 PM, vsoler wrote:
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> >>> 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
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> >> 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
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> 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

I currently do not have subversion access in my PC. I could try to
install a free copy of it. But it you could ptovide an installer, it
certainly would do things easier. Please let me know if it is
possible.

Vicente Soler