[python-win32] Finding users home directories

[Giampaolo Rodola']

2008/1/12, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
> but it seems not. According to this page:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx
>
> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
> seems to work:
>
> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
>
> <code>
> import _winreg
> import win32api
> import wmi
>
> #
> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
> #
> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
>
> HKLM = 0x80000002
> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
>
> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
>    sid = account.SID
>    break
> else:
>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
>
> registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
> result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
>    _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
>    profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
>    "ProfileImagePath"
> )
>
> print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
> </code>
>
> TJG

This is what I get when I try to run your code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\billiejoex\Desktop\_test.py", line 25, in <mod
ule>
    "ProfileImagePath"
TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (4 given)