On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Mahoney <catd...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:26:26 +0000, GSO wrote: > >> I'm sure this question is as old as time, but what is the best way to >> gain root privileges? (Am using Python 2.6.5, pygtk2 v2.16, Gtk >> v2.18.9, on RHEL6.) > > Gain root privileges for a script? Write a c wrapper to call the script, > chown it (the wrapper) to root, and set it (the wrapper) suid.
Or for better security, write a shell script that execs the Python script via sudo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
