Occasionally I run into comments or responses that state emphatically that running pip under sudo is “wrong” or “bad”, but there are cases (including the way I have a bunch of tools set up) where it is either much simpler, or even necessary to run it that way.
I’ve started to use my Mac to install Python packages in the same way I do with my Windows PC at work; however on my Mac I’ve come across frequent permission denied errors while writing to log files or site-packages.
So I’m trying to get a process to be run as a super user from within a python script using subprocess. In the ipython shell something like
I have a problem. I am writing a piece of software, which is required to perform an operation which requires the user to be in sudo mode. running ‘sudo python filename.py’ isn’t an option, which leads me to my question. Is there a way of changing to sudo half way through a python script, security isn’t an issue as the user will know the sudo password the program should run in the following way to illustrate the issue
Can’t remember where I read this, but either somewhere on here or in the comments of a tutorial I was following, a person said:
In the sudoers file, you can have either of the following lines
I have a script that does a number of different things, most of which do not require any special privileges. However, one specific section, which I have contained within a function, needs root privileges.
I have an account named as Chankey (local user). I had to use some commands like viewing the shadow file etc. I tried it using sudo command
On Ubuntu 12.04, when I sudo -s the $HOME variable is not changed, so if my regular user is regularuser, the situation goes like this:
I was reading a guide to install some software and came reading until this shocking statement: