[python-win32] Finding users home directories

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > 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')
> >
>
> It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:
>
>  >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
>  'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
>  >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
>  '~user'
>  >>>

Does user 'user' actually exists ?

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