Running Python scripts under a different user

[Bernard Lebel]

Thanks Laszlo, I'll check it out.

Bernard




On 5/29/06, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at designaproduct.biz> wrote:
>
> >>
> >>  From what you wrote, I think that you need to change architecture. You
> >> should write your own service rather than write tricky programs. This
> >> way you can develop your own security system, and restrict access to
> >> specific files/programs. You can write tools that can connect to your
> >> service. The service program can be ran on the background, with
> >> sufficient privileges. How does it sound?
> >
> > [Bermard] Any ressource you could point me to as to write services?
> > I'm totally unexperienced with that.
> I'm sorry, I was out of town in the weekend. You can try to write a
> multi-threaded application server that provides services through TCP/IP.
> Probably, the easiest to start with an existing framework:
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/
> http://www.webwareforpython.org/
>
> There are many other libraries, you can look for them in the cheeseshop.
>
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi
>
> You can also develop your own protocol with SocketServer or xmlrpc:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-SocketServer.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html
>
>
> Best,
>
>    Laszlo
>
>