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Saeed Vrz
Saeed Vrz

Reputation: 147

change date/time using python in linux

I tried using date command to change the system time in debian linux:

os.system("echo passwd | "sudo date -s \"Thu Aug 9 21:31:26 UTC 2012\")

and I set the python file permission to 777 and also chown as root. But it does not work and says date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted. Any Ideas?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7119

Answers (2)

Hugh Williams
Hugh Williams

Reputation: 39

You did a lower case -s it is meant to be -S so that is why it isn't working.

Upvotes: 1

Chad Miller
Chad Miller

Reputation: 1475

Sudo doesn't take password from stdin, but from the terminal device.

Add your date to the sudoers file so you can run it as root without a password. man sudoers.

bob     ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/date

Next, use subprocess instead of os.system.

sudodate = subprocess.Popen(["sudo", "date", "-s", "Thu Aug  9 21:31:26 UTC 2012"])
sudodate.communicate()

Upvotes: 3

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