[python-win32] HKLM\SOFTWARE\...\ProfileList\... registry subkeyquery

[Roger Upole]

raf wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
>
>> raf wrote:
>>
>> > so my questions are:
>> > did the sid for the account name ever uniquely identify the user?
>>
>> Yes. In fact it's the only way, since you can change the login name of an account.
>>
>> > how do i obtain the "1009" that needs to be appended to the sid
>> > to complete it?
>>
>> win32security.LookupAccountName will give you the complete sid for a username.
>>
>>      Roger
>
> if you look at the code i supplied, you'll see that that is precisely
> where i get the sid from:
>
>  sid = win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid(win32security.LookupAccountName(None, username)[0])
>
> so win32security.LookupAccountName is not giving me the complete sid for the username.
> any idea why it isn't doing so? any idea what i'm doing wrong?
>
> cheers,
> raf

Sorry, from a first glance I thought you were deliberately retrieving the machine's SID and then
looking for the accounts under it.  It appears you have a machine named the same as the user,
and the call to LookupAccountName is finding the computer name first.  Try passing
\\machine\username instead of just the bare user name.

       Roger