prompt user to login to protected directory in python
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I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory.
Example of what sort of thing the code is doing below:
subfolder = input("give a subfolder")
if os.path.isdir("\\directory\path\"):
#run some stuff
os.startfile("\\directory\path\" + subfolder)
else:
print('error message- unable to connect to drive. Please log in')
If the user has opened "\directorypath" on their own and entered their username/password into the windows security prompt, then my code works. If they haven't, I can't find the directory path.
Is there a way to open to the windows security prompt from Python? Ideally user puts in username and password and then can continue to the directory.
python directory windows-explorer windows-security
asked Nov 21 at 23:48
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I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory.
Example of what sort of thing the code is doing below:
subfolder = input("give a subfolder")
if os.path.isdir("\\directory\path\"):
#run some stuff
os.startfile("\\directory\path\" + subfolder)
else:
print('error message- unable to connect to drive. Please log in')
If the user has opened "\directorypath" on their own and entered their username/password into the windows security prompt, then my code works. If they haven't, I can't find the directory path.
Is there a way to open to the windows security prompt from Python? Ideally user puts in username and password and then can continue to the directory.
python directory windows-explorer windows-security
asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
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I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory.
Example of what sort of thing the code is doing below:
subfolder = input("give a subfolder")
if os.path.isdir("\\directory\path\"):
#run some stuff
os.startfile("\\directory\path\" + subfolder)
else:
print('error message- unable to connect to drive. Please log in')
If the user has opened "\directorypath" on their own and entered their username/password into the windows security prompt, then my code works. If they haven't, I can't find the directory path.
Is there a way to open to the windows security prompt from Python? Ideally user puts in username and password and then can continue to the directory.
python directory windows-explorer windows-security
asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
31
I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory.
Example of what sort of thing the code is doing below:
subfolder = input("give a subfolder")
if os.path.isdir("\\directory\path\"):
#run some stuff
os.startfile("\\directory\path\" + subfolder)
else:
print('error message- unable to connect to drive. Please log in')
If the user has opened "\directorypath" on their own and entered their username/password into the windows security prompt, then my code works. If they haven't, I can't find the directory path.
Is there a way to open to the windows security prompt from Python? Ideally user puts in username and password and then can continue to the directory.
python directory windows-explorer windows-security
python directory windows-explorer windows-security
asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
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asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
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asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
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asked Nov 21 at 23:48
C.Nicotina
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asked Nov 21 at 23:48
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If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
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Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
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If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
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Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
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If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
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Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
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up vote
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If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
1564
If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
1564
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
1564
answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
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answered Nov 22 at 0:04
AlecZ
1564
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Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
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Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
Perfect, that does it! If I add the connection and then try to open to that directory it will work and authenticate perfectly fine.
– C.Nicotina
Nov 26 at 20:55
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