On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you are correct - su uses some tty magic to stop ECHO and probably > doesn't read the password from stdin.
I believe that's right, but the 'sudo' command - at least on my Debian and Ubuntu systems - accepts a -S parameter to read from stdin instead of the terminal. Actually, sudo might be better suited to the OP's task anyway, if it's available. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
