thebiggestbangthe...@gmail.com wrote: > 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. > > >
Is using gksu or kdesu feasible? Or maybe you could run "sudo -v" which activates sudo then immediately run your "sudo command". This relies on sudo not configured to not use timestamp though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
