On May 28, 5:31 am, Sebastian Wiesner <basti.wies...@gmx.net> wrote: > <Sean DiZazzo – Donnerstag, 28. Mai 2009 10:11> > > > Your best bet is to make sudo not ask for a password. :) If you > > don't have the rights, then you can use pexpect to do what you want to > > do. http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect.html > > > See the second example on that page. > > > child = pexpect.spawn('scp foo myn...@host.example.com:.') > > child.expect ('Password:') > > child.sendline (mypassword) > > The sudo password prompt is very configurable, so changing the configuration > to allow execution without password input is really the best option. > > -- > Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. > (Rosa Luxemburg)
Thanks guys for helping out! very good answers :-) Before I saw your answers, I tried the following, output = subprocess.Popen(["sudo","-b", "code.sh", "arg1"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] This seemed to push the shell execution process to the background and because my python program was invoked initially with sudo, it seems I did not need to enter a passwd again. Any comments about this..any issues that you see will crop up? Thanks a ton again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
