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Created January 8, 2020 12:04
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Programmatically use sudo from python
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sudo_from_python.py
import subprocess
sudoPassword = b'mySudoPassword\n'
cmd = 'sudo -S touch /dev/shm/1.txt'.split(' ')
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p.communicate(sudoPassword)
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