[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a standard library module in Python 2.4 (Win32) that will
> return directory permissions / ACLs (e.g. users, groups, and what
> rights they have)?
>
> Otherwise, I'm faced with sending "cacls dirName" commands via os.popen
> as below, and then parsing and comparing the text output.
>
> Basically, I'd like to compare what the ACLs a directory should have
> against what the actual ACLs are.
>
> Here's what I started with:
>
> import os # Cross-platform filesystem manipulation
>
> rootDir = "S:\someRootDirectoryHere"
>
> print "*** Printing DIRECTORY names beneath directory " + rootDir + "
> ***\n"
> for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(rootDir):
> for dirNm in dirnames:
> theDirPath = os.path.join(dirpath, dirNm)
> print '"' + theDirPath +'"'
> # cacls needs double-quotes around space-containing paths
> result = os.popen("cacls " + '"' + theDirPath + '"')
> # Print the security info (ACLs)for specified directory
> print result.read()
>
> Thanks.
The win32security module from Pywin32 wraps the functions used to
read and change security descriptors.
Roger
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