On 2009-01-24, Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote: > 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.
Though it's easy enough to set the root password, it's not really the "Ubuntu way"... -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
