passwords

I'm trying the following from subprocess import Popen, PIPE Popen(["scp", "-B","user@url:file", "."], stdin=PIPE, shell=False).communicate(input="password") But I still get the password promt, and no password is sent. I know I can use scp with keys, but this is not what I need. Any help? scp interacts with the terminal directly, rather than reading from STDIN , You can't pass the password via a pipe, it security matter for scp and it's the same for sftp, ssh. you can try it in you terminal like this (and it will not work): echo "password" | scp me@localhost:test . As others have said, scp (and

I am supporting a site built on symfony. There were problems regarding some kind of "admin page". While not knowing much about the whole thing by reading the logs and comparing recent backups I think I was able to fix the issue (some developer removed a route, but did not fix a template). I do not have admin password to the site, but have root access to the server and super access to the database (in this case postgres). Can you help me how to create myself an account without knowing the current passwords? Disclaimer: I do not have much knowledge with PHP's OOP interface as I am not a