Robert Jackson wrote:
> I'm trying to write a function that checks to see if the user that
> is running the python script is 'root' (I'm obviously running this
> Python program on Linux).
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> Using os.system(), I have done something like this:
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>>>> import os
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>>>> os.system("whoami")
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> robert
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> 0
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> If I try to assign the output of this snippet of code to a variable,
> the variable ultimately ends up holding "0" and not the username.
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> I have seen some examples on Google where some individuals have suggested
> something like this:
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> user=os.system("whoami")
> if user is not "root":
> print "You aren't root. Goodbye."
> sys.exit()
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> But that isn't going to work, for obvious reasons (user holds 0, and not the
> username). How do I get around this problem?
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> Robert
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maybe this
import os, sys
# we need to be root
if os.getuid():
print "You need to be root, so we now die."
sys.exit(0)
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Norman Khine
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