Change user on UNIX

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:

> Is there any way to su or login as a different user within a
> python script? I mainly need to temporarily impersonate another
> user to execute a command and then come back to the original user.
> I tried to google a little bit about it but I still didn't find a
> solution.

IMHO, the cleanest way from a security perspective would be using
sudo. root can even configure it in a way that you don't have to
type a password.

Regards,


Björn

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