executing su under Python

[Joerg Woelke]

Brett Cannon <bac at ocf.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I have been following the recent posts about executing terminal commands
> on the newsgroup recently in hopes of solving my problem.  Unfortunately,
> nothing seems to have worked so far.  I am hoping someone has a solution.

> I am trying to execute this line under Solaris 8:
> su bac -c "lp /tmp/bac.print"

You may have a look at sudo.

> The trouble I keep running into is when I try to pass in my password.  No
> matter how I try to handle it, either the pipes freeze up under popen*, or
> I get a broken fd message (from the child_process.py file uploaded to
> c.l.p a few days ago), something goes wrong.  I have yet to ever get any
> command that requires a password to the terminal to work under Python.

man expect

> Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

> -Brett C.

HTH, HAND
and Greets
J"o! :-)

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