"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings-
> This is on Linux... I have a daemon running as root and I want to
> execute another Python program as another user (a regular user). I have
> the name of the user and can use the 'pwd' and 'grp' modules to get
> that user's user and group ids. What I don't understand is how to then
> go about launching that new program. I had considered having the
> launched program switch itself back to the target user (somehow), but
> the launched program is graphical in nature (PyQt), and I am afraid of
> X11 locking out the display to user root (many distros seem to ship
> with server access for user root turned off). That might prevent the
> launched program from even starting?
>
> Any ideas? My Google searching was not successful in figuring this
> out...
Well, Jeff already pointed out running su. You might also check the
os.setuid docs, and the setuid man page.
<mike
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