#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python; py-indent-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- # vim: fileencoding=utf-8 tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 """User Access Control for Microsoft Windows Vista and higher. This is only for the Windows platform. This will relaunch either the current script - with all the same command line parameters - or else you can provide a different script/program to run. If the current user doesn't normally have admin rights, he'll be prompted for an admin password. Otherwise he just gets the UAC prompt. Note that the prompt may simply shows a generic python.exe with "Publisher: Unknown" if the python.exe is not signed. This is meant to be used something like this:: if not pyuac.isUserAdmin(): return pyuac.runAsAdmin() # otherwise carry on doing whatever... See L{runAsAdmin} for the main interface. """ import sys, os, traceback, types def isUserAdmin(): """@return: True if the current user is an 'Admin' whatever that means (root on Unix), otherwise False. Warning: The inner function fails unless you have Windows XP SP2 or higher. The failure causes a traceback to be printed and this function to return False. """ if os.name == 'nt': import win32security # WARNING: requires Windows XP SP2 or higher! try: adminSid = win32security.CreateWellKnownSid(win32security.WinBuiltinAdministratorsSid, None) return win32security.CheckTokenMembership(None, adminSid) except: traceback.print_exc() print("Admin check failed, assuming not an admin.") return False else: # Check for root on Posix return os.getuid() == 0 def runAsAdmin(cmdLine=None, wait=True): """Attempt to relaunch the current script as an admin using the same command line parameters. Pass cmdLine in to override and set a new command. It must be a list of [command, arg1, arg2...] format. Set wait to False to avoid waiting for the sub-process to finish. You will not be able to fetch the exit code of the process if wait is False. Returns the sub-process return code, unless wait is False in which case it returns None. @WARNING: this function only works on Windows. """ if os.name != 'nt': raise RuntimeError("This function is only implemented on Windows.") import win32api, win32con, win32event, win32process from win32com.shell.shell import ShellExecuteEx from win32com.shell import shellcon python_exe = sys.executable if cmdLine is None: cmdLine = [python_exe] + sys.argv elif type(cmdLine) not in (types.TupleType,types.ListType): raise ValueError("cmdLine is not a sequence.") cmd = '"%s"' % (cmdLine[0],) # XXX TODO: isn't there a function or something we can call to massage command line params? params = " ".join(['"%s"' % (x,) for x in cmdLine[1:]]) cmdDir = '' showCmd = win32con.SW_SHOWNORMAL lpVerb = 'runas' # causes UAC elevation prompt. # print "Running", cmd, params # ShellExecute() doesn't seem to allow us to fetch the PID or handle # of the process, so we can't get anything useful from it. Therefore # the more complex ShellExecuteEx() must be used. # procHandle = win32api.ShellExecute(0, lpVerb, cmd, params, cmdDir, showCmd) procInfo = ShellExecuteEx(nShow=showCmd, fMask=shellcon.SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS, lpVerb=lpVerb, lpFile=cmd, lpParameters=params) if wait: procHandle = procInfo['hProcess'] obj = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(procHandle, win32event.INFINITE) rc = win32process.GetExitCodeProcess(procHandle) #print "Process handle %s returned code %s" % (procHandle, rc) else: rc = None return rc def test(): """A simple test function; check if we're admin, and if not relaunch the script as admin.""", rc = 0 if not isUserAdmin(): print("You're not an admin.", os.getpid(), "params: ", sys.argv) #rc = runAsAdmin(["c:\\Windows\\notepad.exe"]) rc = runAsAdmin() else: print("You are an admin!", os.getpid(), "params: ", sys.argv) rc = 0 x = input('Press Enter to exit.') return rc if __name__ == "__main__": res = test() sys.exit(res)