Problem calling script with arguments

[Michael Speer]

>  "/usr/sbin/ftpasswd" "--hash"

You're missing a comma, and python automatically concatenates adjacent
strings.


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a 3rd party perl script:
>
>  head -n 1 /usr/sbin/ftpasswd
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> I want to write data to stdin and read from stdout:
>
> proc = Popen( ["/usr/bin/perl", "/usr/sbin/ftpasswd" "--hash", "--stdin"],
> stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE)
>
> output, input = proc.communicate(pwd)
> return output.strip()
>
> Since pwd comes from a non-trusted source I don't want to use shell=True.
>
> The arguments to the perl interpreter do not seem to right:
>
> Can't open perl script "/usr/sbin/ftpasswd--hash": No such file or
> directory
>
> Adding a leading " " to "--hash" does not help.
>
> How can I use that script and achieve something like
>
> # echo "123" | ftpasswd --hash --stdin
> ftpasswd: $1$8BuLAqCl$y/URBN/OCSLsKtnu8nFHH0
>
> Thanks!
>
> Florian
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