running commands with sudo & python

[coldsoul4e@googlemail.com]

Hi!
I must execute a command with os.command(), but with root permissions.
Is there anyway to do that with python?
Thanks

[John Bauman]

Re: running commands with sudo & python

coldsoul4e@goog lemail.com wrote:

Hi!
I must execute a command with os.command(), but with root permissions.
Is there anyway to do that with python?
Thanks
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

Of course, it's not generally a good idea to have your program keep root
permissions after it does whatever it needs to do.

[db]

Re: running commands with sudo & python


Hi there,

I think you can do that with pexpect

http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/

good luck

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:18:14 -0700, coldsoul4e wrote:

Hi!
I must execute a command with os.command(), but with root permissions.
Is there anyway to do that with python?
Thanks