[python-win32] Finding users home directories

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> user by providing its username + password:
>
> def get_homedir(username, password):
>    token = win32security.LogonUser(
>        username,
>        None,
>        password,
>        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
>        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
>        )
>    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
>
>
> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> the pwd module and providing the username only:
>
>  >>> import pwd
>  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
>  '/home/user'
>
> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?

Did you try:

import os
os.path.expanduser('~user')

?

>
> Thanks in advance
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