HOWTO change user on UNIX for os.system

[William Park]

Tom Higgins <vigtest at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to su or login as a different user
> within a python script?  I mainly need to discover a
> method which accepts a password from with the script.

Lookup 'telnetlib', 'getpass', 'pwd', 'crypt' for examples.

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