bruce wrote: > hi. > > within python, what's the best way to automatically spawn an app as a given > user/group. > > i'm testing an app, and i'm going to need to assign the app to a given > user/group, as well as assign it certain access rights/modes (rwx) i then > want to copy the test app to a given dir, and then spawn a process to run > the app.. > > thanks
Look in the os module docs at the set*id() functions http://docs.python.org/lib/os-procinfo.html Then when you spawn the app using subprocess.Popen() you can pass a function as the preexec_fn argument that changes the user and group ids of the child "just before the child is executed" http://docs.python.org/lib/node235.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
