Python --- find current or last logged on user

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I am trying to find current or last logged on user

Part of the script 

# userIP has been defined
# try to access wmi

try:
    c = wmi.WMI(userIP)
except: 
    print "Cannot access WMI for", userIP
    sys.exit()


for os in c.Win32_OperatingSystem():
    print os.Caption

for us in c.Win32_LogonSession():
    print us.LogonId

I get the following output

Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
999
997
996
4831418
8883496
8883473
8883457
8883437
671914

Do these numbers represent recently and currently logged on users? How to convert them to DOMAIN\username format? And if they can be converted, how to get latest user?

EDIT

I tried 

for us in c.Win32_LogonSession():
    for user in us.references("Win32_LoggedOnUser"):
        print(user.Antecedent)

But I get error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\lookup.py", line 48, in <module>
    print(user.Antecedent)
  File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 555, in __getattr__
    return WMI (moniker=value)
  File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 1290, in connect
    handle_com_error ()
  File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 241, in handle_com_error
    raise klass (com_error=err)
wmi.x_wmi: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147217406, 'OLE error 0x80041002', No
ne, None)>

Then I tried 

for us in c.Win32_LogonSession():
    for user in us.references("Win32_LoggedOnUser"):
        print(user.Antecedent.Domain, user.Antecedent.Name, sep="\\")

But I get the error

  File ".\lookup.py", line 48
    print(user.Antecedent.Domain, user.Antecedent.Name, sep="\\")
                                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How do I troubleshoot these?

python
wmi
asked on Stack Overflow May 6, 2014 by Glowie • edited May 7, 2014 by Glowie

2 Answers

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You have to dig down a bit to get the added info. Unfortunately, I can't recall my source for this:

for us in c.Win32_LogonSession():
    for user in us.references("Win32_LoggedOnUser"):
        print(user.Antecedent)

You can get the properties printed from that as well, for example replace the final line with:

print(user.Antecedent.Domain, user.Antecedent.Name, sep="\\")

I get:

MyPC\nerdwaller

edit

I should have mentioned two things:

  1. I am using Python3, so for you to use print as a function in python 2.x:

    from __future__ import print_function

  2. There are issues iterating through that, as you are seeing. There are various solutions, and since I don't know your use-case... not the cleanest solution, you can wrap that in a try/catch:

 

for us in c.Win32_LogonSession():
    try:
        for user in us.references("Win32_LoggedOnUser"):
            print(user.Antecedent)
    except:
        pass
answered on Stack Overflow May 6, 2014 by nerdwaller • edited May 6, 2014 by nerdwaller
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The accepted answer returns many users, including yourself and possibly the person logged in.

I find that a more reliable way of discovering the person logged on is to get the owner of the explorer.exe process.

Try the following to get a nice tuple containing the domain and username of the currently logged on user of the remote Windows computer:

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI('target_hostname')
for process in c.Win32_Process(name='explorer.exe'):
    print process.GetOwner()

If no one is logged in and you want the last person who was, you can try the following to get the SID of the most recently logged in user of the remote Windows computer:

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI('target_hostname')
profiles = []
for up in c.Win32_UserProfile():
    profiles.append((up.LastUseTime, up.SID, up.LocalPath))
profiles.sort(reverse=True)
for p in profiles:
    print p

The first element of the profiles list will contain the most recently logged in user. Unfortunately this is just the SID. The LocalPath part can at least tell you their username if you look at their home directory name (not always reliable). I'm not sure how to convert a SID into a username in Python.

answered on Stack Overflow Jan 6, 2015 by Phistrom • edited Jan 8, 2015 by Phistrom

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