changeing users on linux

[darkchild50]

how would i go about makeing a program in python that asks for username
and password and changes to that user?

[Mike Meyer]

da*********@gmail.com writes:

how would i go about makeing a program in python that asks for username
and password and changes to that user?

For some definition of "changes to that user":

# Untested code
from pwd import getpwnam
from os import setuid

setuid(getpwnam(raw_input("Who do you want to be? "))[2])

I don't recommend the one-liner version for production code, though.
You didn't say what the password was for, so I skipped asking for it.

<mike
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[darkchild50]

the password is for loging into root

[jepler]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:25:56PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:

You didn't say what the password was for, so I skipped asking for it.

You're a real comedian.

Jeff

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[Mike Meyer]

da*********@gmail.com writes:

the password is for loging into root

The setuid call will fail unless you're already root. You can't, as
some user other than root, change your userid, so the answer to
the original question with the added restriction is "You can't".

<mike
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