how would i go about makeing a program in python that asks for username
and password and changes to that user?
and password and changes to that user?
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Re: changeing users on linux
darkchild50@gma il.com writes:[color=blue]
> how would i go about makeing a program in python that asks for username
> and password and changes to that user?[/color]
For some definition of "changes to that user":
# Untested code
from pwd import getpwnam
from os import setuid
setuid(getpwnam (raw_input("Who do you want to be? "))[2])
I don't recommend the one-liner version for production code, though.
You didn't say what the password was for, so I skipped asking for it.
<mike
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Re: changeing users on linux
the password is for loging into root
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Re: changeing users on linux
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:25:56PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:[color=blue]
> You didn't say what the password was for, so I skipped asking for it.[/color]
You're a real comedian.
Jeff
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Re: changeing users on linux
darkchild50@gma il.com writes:
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> the password is for loging into root[/color]
The setuid call will fail unless you're already root. You can't, as
some user other than root, change your userid, so the answer to
the original question with the added restriction is "You can't".
<mike
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