On 11/06/2008, Timo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I'm writing a program in Python/pyGTK and I need to be root 2
> times. The first time is to open a file, let's say menu.lst. I use
> os.system('gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst'), so that works. But what
> if I have a copy of the file on my desktop? I use shutil.copyfile() to
> copy the file from /boot/grub/ to /home/user/Desktop, but ofcourse need
> to be root to copy it back.
> So, how can I use shutil.copyfile() with gksudo to ask the password? Or
> is the another good way to do this in Python?
Presumably you could do os.system('gksudo cp
/home/user/Desktop/menu.lst /boot/grub') ?
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John.
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