Raghul wrote: > What I need is when I execute a script it should login as root and > execute my command and logout from root to my existing account.
I'm not sure of what you need, so I'll assume your *whole* .py script needs root priviledges. In this case, you can configure sudo(8) or use su(1). For example, the script below does nothing special: | #!/usr/bin/env python | | print "Hello world!" You can run it with higher priviledges if you use sudo(8): $ chmod 755 hello.py $ sudo ./hello.py Or you can use su(1): $ su - root -c ./hello.py You can configure sudo(8) to not prompt for any password, BTW. Cheers! -- Luis Bruno -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
