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Haim Ashkenazi
haim at babysnakes.org
Fri Sep 10 05:11:26 EDT 2004
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:21:23 +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:07:06 +1000, Byron Ellacott wrote: > >> Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >>> 2. the script must run as the user authenticated. I can make it run as >>> root and run system commands with 'su' but I was wondering is there a >>> module in python to handle it. >> >> On UNIX systems, sys.os.set[e]uid() will allow you to set the >> (effective) user ID for the process. If your script is running as root >> initially, you should probably use sys.os.setuid() as soon as you know >> the user you need to be. If your script might be handling several >> requests, you'll probably need to use seteuid() instead, and revert to >> root when you're done. > great, that's what I was looking for. to revert to root do I use seteuid() > again? ok, that was just me being lazy :( I can seteuid() back and forth so I guess that's the answer... also, found a nice solution to the authentication problem in the activestate cookbook - I can authenticate through pop3... Bye -- Haim
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