running a command as a super user from a python script

Question

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

proc = subproces         


        

Answer 1

To run a command as root, and pass it the password at the command prompt, you could do it as so:

import subprocess
from getpass import getpass

ls = "sudo -S ls -al".split()
cmd = subprocess.run(
    ls, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, input=getpass("password: "), encoding="ascii",
)
print(cmd.stdout)

For your example, probably something like this:

import subprocess
from getpass import getpass

restart_apache = "sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl restart".split()
proc = subprocess.run(
    restart_apache,
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    input=getpass("password: "),
    encoding="ascii",
)