[Tutor] Running shell command

[Ricardo Dueñas Parada]

Thanks for your answers.

How can I make that action more secure? Is there any way for running
the program from a regular user (non su) without having the password
within the code?

_Ricardo

2008/5/30 Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>:

>
> "Brett Wilkins" <lupin at orcon.net.nz> wrote
>
>> Just as a side point, wouldn't the easiest way be to run the script under
>> sudo?
>> It's safer imho than putting the sudo password in programmatically...
>>
>
> Yes, but he is (presumably) already using sudo within os.system.
> He wants to avoid putting in the password so he must take the
> security risks associated with that approach.
>
> Caveat emptor as they say!
>
> Alan G
>
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