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I tried migrating my Linux setup script to Python, but the sudo thing is quite hard to solve. Either I have to grant the whole Python process sudo privileges a

by maxloh 2y ago

I tried migrating my Linux setup script to Python, but the sudo thing is quite hard to solve. Either I have to grant the whole Python process sudo privileges and manually change the ownership of all touched files, or I have to spawn a sudo rm process to remove the files owned by root (instead of using Python's standard library). Neither of these makes the script simpler or easier to maintain.

dragonwriter 2y ago
> Either I have to grant the whole Python process sudo privileges and manually change the ownership of all touched files, or I have to spawn a sudo rm process to remove the files owned by root (instead of using Python's standard library). You could have a separate python script you call via sudo. Or you could automate the equivalent within python. Old discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/s/tIYUq1Zgd3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/s/tIYUq1Zgd3 Code (plus Python 3 & functionality updates; linked from the discussion, but knowing HN, some people will just wabt to skip straight to it): https://gist.github.com/barneygale/8ff070659178135b10b5e202a1ecaa3f https://gist.github.com/barneygale/8ff070659178135b10b5e202a...