Mounting shares with python

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Jan 26 08:03:41 EST 2007


Marcpp wrote:

> Hi, when i mount a share with python...
> 
> os.system ("mount -t smbfs -o username=nobody ...")
> 
> the problem is that I'll to be root.
> Have a comand to send a root password...?
> I've tried
> 
> os.system ("su")
> os.system ("the password")
> 
> but it doesn't works.

You can try to use sudo

os.system ("sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=nobody ...")

It must be configured properly of course.

Diez



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