hello all, This is a real challenge and I don't know if a solution even exists for this or not.
I am writing an application which I run as my usual user on ubuntu. the usernake is let's say kk and it has sudo permission (meaning the user is in the sudoers list ). now when i do python myscript.py, the script has to change to another non-privileged user for some tasks. let's say for example switch to the postgres user which is dedicated for postgres and has no other privileges. I have tryed doing os.setuid(112) where 112 could be the uid of the user I want the script to swith over. but I got opperation not permitted. I tryed using subprocess but that did not help me either. I tryed sudo su into the Popen command but it throws me into the terminal (shell) with postgres as the user. But that's now my desired result. what I exactly want is that the script now continues to execute under postgres user till the end. I don't know how to achieve this iffect. Infact I will need this during a serious deployment because i would have my application run as a demon as a dedicated user. I am finding some code for deamonising a python application but don't know how to tell the script to change user. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
