On 10/9/06, Jon Rosebaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/06, skip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > I am making a control panel application that will do things like let
> > people change their unix password and view a list of their files.
> >
> > Is there some technique/method/something I can google for which will
> > enable me to effectively set the unix user running the script to the
> > user logged in?
>
> If your script is initially running as root, you can use os.seteuid.
> That's the only thing I can think of.
Yep, you'll need to be running as root to start with. Hopefully,
you'll find this chunk of code useful:
-jj
"""This module contains the ``seteids`` function."""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext"
import os
def seteids(user, group):
"""Change the ``euid`` and ``egid`` if run as root.
user, group
The user and group to change to.
This function is self contained so that subclasses can easily drop this
behavior. I won't, however, bother to catch exceptions because this is
something you need to think about.
"""
import pwd
import grp
UID = GID = 2
if not os.geteuid():
os.setegid(grp.getgrnam(group)[GID]) # This must come first.
os.seteuid(pwd.getpwnam(user)[UID])
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