In article <mailman.7854.1232759225.3487.python-l...@python.org>, 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 easiest -- really -- is to just make it a root script and run it with sudo. If you're on Ubuntu, that's pretty much the only option (without resorting to complicated ways of running sudo) -- the standard Ubuntu setup doesn't have a root password. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
