On Aug 19, 8:55 pm, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > On 19/08/2010 4:55 PM, vsoler wrote: > > > I need to read, for each of the directories in a shared file server > > unit, who has access to the directories and what type of access > > privileges. > > > This is something that I can easily do interactively in my Windows > > Document Explorer by right clicking a single directory, clicking on > > Properties, then on Security. > > > There I can see the Users and Group of Users that have access to the > > selected directory, as well as the type of access to that directory > > (Read/Write/eXecute etc.) > > Here you have one of those occasions when the Windows GUI does > a very good job of presenting a simplified but perfectly usable > interface layer on top of a moderately complex security scheme. > > It's not as easy as you think. > > > I've been looking in the "os" library, and found the "os.chmod" method > > but I am not sure that it is going to give me what I need. Should I > > also used library "stat"? > > No. Both of these are basically doing a best-endeavours job of mapping > certain Windows attributes to some Posix equivalent. They're essentially > useless for anything beyond the most trivial tasks. > > Have a read here which will at least put you on the path of knowing > what terminology you need to search for: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/add-security-to-a-file.html > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-the-owner-of-a-file.... > > and if you're interested, this is the kind of thing my winsys > package is reasonably good at: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winsys/security.html#module-security > > TJG
Thank you very much, Tim, for your answer. It looks as though it is going to suit my needs. Your file WinSys-0.4.win32-py2.5.msi is obviously for python 2.5 and 2.6. File WinSys-0.4.zip should be for the same versions of Python, probably. What about your WinSys-0.5beta.win32.exe file? is it for python 3? I currently have python 3 in my pc. Do I need to install a previous version of python? Thank you for your help Vicente Soler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
