Escalating privileges in Python Script
I am looking for a way to escalate privileges in a python GUI application that I am developing. My desired model is GUFW. I love how you don't need to run the main program as root, but when you do something "rooty" you need to "unlock" it.
I have a program where I am developing text files that need to be stored either in the user's home directory tree or in a directory under the / usr directory (which needs the height of the root).
I don't want to run the program as root, but invoke root access when / if I need to save the file for a user other than the user running the program (in this case, root).
I don't want to save it to temporary locations and fall back to calling (ba) sh, for example:
os.system('gksu cp /tmp/myfile /usr/systemdir/myfile')
I would like to do this programmatically in Python if possible. In the future, I may need operations that don't just create the file, but may need some additions in the middle of the file.
Also, after this save operation is complete, I want the identity to be uninstalled.
Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some sample code for this endevour?
Hello,
Narnie
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You want PolicyKit - the FreeDesktop specification and software to do just that. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359397 is a tutorial and sample code for using this with Python (although I haven't personally used PolicyKit, I can't say how good it is or not). Note that for newer dbus and glib, you will want to use the self-presentation GObject ( from gi.repository import DBus
) instead of the old bindings python-dbus
, and this will almost certainly have flow changes compared to the sample code.
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