Am 01.01.2010 23:55, schrieb Kent Tenney:
Howdy,
Hi Kent,
A script running as a regular user sometimes wants
to run sudo commands.
It gets the password with getpass.
pw = getpass.getpass()
I've fiddled a bunch with stuff like
proc = subprocess.Popen('sudo touch /etc/foo'.split(), stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
proc.communicate(input=pw)
If you don't use shell=True you have to provide the full path to
commands (and split command and parameters as you do). So eather of this
works for me:
p = Popen('/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/touch /tmp/foo.txt'.split(),
stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
p = Popen('/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/touch /tmp/foo2.txt', stdin=PIPE,
stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
The bad news is: It this gives me a password promt inside the
interactive interpreter. Seems you can't catch stdout this way.
hth
Paul
getting assorted errors with all variations I try.
Googling says use pexpect, but I'd prefer a stdlib solution.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Kent
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