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') ? -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor