On 2009-01-24, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to make a python program that I can run as a normal > user that changes the permission on some device files. It > will need to ask me for the root password and then run chown > as root in order to do this. > > How do I accomplish this (easily) ?
The short answer is: you don't accomplish that easily. The long answer is: you can accomplishity difficultly by using a pty or the pexect module to execute the su or sudo command. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
