Krishnakant schrieb:
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 00:17 +0200, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Being a sudoer is not a privilege to issue the os.setuid system call. It
is only a permission to use the sudo command.
Yes, So I would like to know if python can change the user to some other
non-privileged user during the script execution?
If the user running python program is allowed to call setuid() then yes.
K> I tryed using subprocess but that did not help me either. I tryed sudo
K> su into the Popen command but it throws me into the terminal (shell)
K> with postgres as the user.
You could execute the command:
sudo -u postgres required_command
with subprocess.
Ok, but the problem is much more complex.
No.
What if I want to do the following.
1, change the user for a particular script to the postgres user.
Did you try running "sudo -u postgres blabla" with subprocess?
2. now execute the python code for connecting to the postgresql
database.
In the second point I actually want to execute python code not shell
level command so will the sudo -u in the subprocess.Popen change the
user in the script?
No, as the name "subprocess" suggests you are spawning a new process
which gets another uid through sudo. This does not affect the parent
process.
hth
Paul
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