Hi All, I am trying to break my nasty habit of doing EVERYTHING in perl and for this task I figure python is one of the better options.
I would like to do several things: 1. take user input - this will be a password 2. use some sort of function that converts the unser input to * or the typical '' no output of linux. 3. Take this input and use it in the os.system to issue an su command. All I have so far is: import os, sys password = raw_input('Enter USER password: ') print "you entered ", password os.system("su perlmunky password") I guess point three is more of a system dependent problem - As I work on a mac and linux is there a better way of issuing these commands? All I really want to do is mount/unmount directories and shift / delete files. I know how to do this in perl, but as I said I really want to kick the habit. Any help - pointers - advice would be most welcome.
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