run command as other user

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <94jt1i$1evs$1 at news.net.uni-c.dk>, "Peter Posselt
Vestergaard" <posselt at daimi.au.dk> writes:

| Is there some way to run a shell-command from python (on Unix) as another
| user (than the one running the script)?

you can use the os.setuid() function to switch another user id.
be careful though, it is easy to create security holes this way.

  -- erno