On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:05 -0700, timw.google wrote: > On Oct 5, 10:33 am, "timw.google" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory >> and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run >> subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or >> os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, >> but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal >> and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting >> interpreted by the shell (zsh) >> >> I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is >> set up here. >> >> How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh >> script? >> >> Thanks. > > I wrote a zsh script to do what I wanted, but I'd still like to know how > to do it in Python.
`subprocess.Popen` has a keyword argument called `stdin` -- what takes the password, I guess. Assigning `subprocess.PIPE` to it and using `Popen.communicate` should do the trick. Check the documentation at http://docs.python.org/lib/module- subprocess.html for details. Cheers, Stargaming -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
