Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Mar 20, 4:51 am, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there any way to su or login as a different user within a python >> script? I mainly need to temporarily impersonate another user to >> execute a command and then come back to the original user. > In the unix world, this is highly discouraged. You shouldn't have to > change your user. > If you want a different user to access files that another user > created, that's what groups are for. What's your take on setuid scripts (Python or otherwise)? I more or less agree with your assessment of su, so I would be interested in your opinion of chmod ug+s some_custom_script. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
