run command as other user

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Peter Posselt Vestergaard wrote:
> Is there some way to run a shell-command from python (on Unix) as another
> user (than the one running the script)?

   There are lots of programs: su, sudo, etc...

Oleg.
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