Change user on UNIX

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Hi all.
Is there any way to su or login as a different user within a python
script? I mainly need to temporarily impersonate another user to
execute a command and then come back to the original user.
I tried to google a little bit about it but I still didn't find a
solution.


Thanks in advance.

--- Giampaolo

http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib

[Jeffrey Froman]

Re: Change user on UNIX

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:

I mainly need to temporarily impersonate another user to
execute a command and then come back to the original user.

If the script is run as root, you can freely impersonate other users with
the os.seteuid() and os.setegid() methods.

If the script is not run as root (either directly or through sudo, as
suggested by other posters), then perhaps it should be.


Jeffrey