changeing users on linux

[Mike Meyer]

darkchild50 at gmail.com writes:
> how would i go about makeing a program in python that asks for username
> and password and changes to that user?

For some definition of "changes to that user":

# Untested code
from pwd import getpwnam
from os import setuid

setuid(getpwnam(raw_input("Who do you want to be? "))[2])

I don't recommend the one-liner version for production code, though.
You didn't say what the password was for, so I skipped asking for it.

     <mike
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