Thanks, Krzysztof. I think the wrapper must be the problem. I tried calling syscall.GetLastError() but that came back as empty, too.
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 3:22:35 PM UTC-7, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote: > > To get the real error, you probably need to call GetLastError() ( > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/wincrypt/nf-wincrypt-certopenstore#return-value > ). > > In principle, Go code should behave the same as C++ code, but > syscall.CertOpenStore is a wrapper which doesn't seem to use GetLastError() > as the doc requests and we can only guess what the C++ code you refer to > does (as CertOpenStore itself doesn't return an error code). > > > On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 2:04:13 PM UTC-7, Sam wrote: >> >> It turns out that the call I mentioned will indeed retrieve the Local >> Machine Personal Cert Store but you must run as Administrator on Windows to >> do so. Otherwise, the store is not found and no error is returned even >> though it is an access denied error (when run as C/C++). >> >> On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 11:52:50 AM UTC-7, Sam wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to add that I have tried this but the store handle returned is >>> zero >>> store, err := syscall.CertOpenStore( >>> windows.CERT_STORE_PROV_SYSTEM_W, >>> 0, >>> 0, >>> windows.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_LOCAL_MACHINE, >>> uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr("MY")))) >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 11:34:02 AM UTC-7, Sam wrote: >>>> >>>> It seems like I should be able to use this: >>>> >>>> store, err := syscall.CertOpenStore(syscall.CERT_STORE_PROV_MEMORY, 0, >>>> 0, windows.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_LOCAL_MACHINE, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(my))) >>>> >>>> but I think I am having trouble with the last argument. I only receive >>>> the CRYPT_E_NOT_FOUND error. I have tried to use the method from here: >>>> https://github.com/google/certtostore/blob/master/certtostore_windows.go >>>> but I don't know if it's out of date because it is the one that lead me to >>>> the error above. >>>> >>>> Has anyone done this before? How did you accomplish it? >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
