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pythonfile-iochown
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Reputation: 2148

Create a file for a different user

I would like to create a file (preferably using with open(…)) and have the owner be a different person than the person running the code.

I have tried to create the file and use os.chown to change the owner, but that doesn't seem to work. Here is what I tried:

import os
import pwd
user=pwd.getpwnam('user')
with open('somefile', 'w') as f:
    f.write('blah, blah')

os.chown('somefile', user.pw_uid, user.pw_gid)

I get the following error:

OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'somefile'

I would have thought that that was the correct way to change the owner of a file.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5286

Answers (1)

Yojimbo
Yojimbo

Reputation: 448

the problem is that you are not creating the new file as root, which is required. check out the comments to this question in SO. should solve the problem.

UPDATE: you need super user privileges to do this. so when running your program, use 

sudo python yourprogramname.py

this will allow your python script super user privileges.

Upvotes: 1

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