Don't know if it's still usefull but it seems that you have to get the sid from a "give sid function"
import win32security,pywintypes try: filo = win32security.GetFileSecurity(path, win32security.OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION) sid = filo.GetSecurityDescriptorOwner() account, domain, typecode = win32security.LookupAccountSid(None, sid) except pywintypes.error,details: account = domain = "" errcode = details[0] print "error acces:", path print domain + u'\\' + account -- Thibault ketterer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list