I have a problem which I was hoping that Python could solve for me, but I have become stuck for days now after only 2 lines of code.
My son has a Microsoft game on a shared family computer, which Microsoft in its infinite wisdom requires you to run as 'administrator'. Call me old-fashioned but I don't want to promote an 8 year-old to administrator just so he can run his game! Enter 'runas.exe'... However, because we are on Windows 2000, runas does not allow you to save a password - it has to be entered every time: not much further forward. So I'm thinking along these lines: import subprocess sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe /user:administrator C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe') #some sort of code to send the password here... #help! Sure enough, this brings up a prompt asking for the administrator's password, but I can't get anything to work in terms of getting the script to provide the password. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Any clues would be gratefully received. (Even if I do get this to work, my next trick is to hide the password from any prying eyes looking at the script...) Thanks Barnaby Scott _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor