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... Thanks, Don -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
