[pygtk] Question abt sudo and password

[Brian]

On Wed, 2006-15-03 at 12:04 -0500, Hussein Vastani wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> In my application, I run external programs by running a shell using 
> subprocess.Popen and then writing commands to it (like 'ls -la') and reading 
> output from it which I then display it on the screen.
> It works fine as long as the external program does not need to run as sudo 
> (like tethereal), in which case, I need to provide the password to it (on the 
> konsole).
> 
> I tried looking at the gksu module. Using the gksu module I can instantiate 
> its Context class and then call the sudo_run() method after setting the 
> command and the password in the Context instance. That works fine but is not 
> the approach I want to take since I want to run commands and read their ouput 
> back.
> 
> So sticking to my use of Popen to execute commands, and assuming I have a way 
> to get the sudo password from the user via a Dialog box, how do I then exectue 
> my command without it asking me a password on the konsole?
> 
> I would  not like to modify the /etc/sudoers file. Is there any other 
> approach?
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> Thanks
> 
> Hussein Vastani
> 

I don't have time to explain it right now.  I also was not the one to
code it.

Check out our project : terminal.py
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/porthole/porthole/terminal.py?rev=1.145&view=log

It has functionality for detecting the sudo prompt and passing it the
password thru a dialog.  It seems to work quite well.  We were waiting
for the gksu python interface to go mainstream (in gnome-python-extras)
before integrating it.

-- 
Brian <dol-sen at telus.net>