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Jacob .G.
Jacob .G.

Reputation: 31

Access Denied Python Script Pstuil

So basically I have Created this application in python that uses Psutil. Iam using it to suspend and resume a process at very high speeds. Although it does work for the majority of the process it doesn't work for some. Ill provide the error code down below but if you do decide to help please be very noob friendly Iam just getting started in python

import psutil
import time
import subprocess



print("Auto Suspender")

condition = 10

subprocess.call("taskkill /Program example")

print("Program Example has been killed :)")

time.sleep(1)

somepid = int(input("What is Process ID ?"))
p = psutil.Process(somepid)
print("Working...")
time.sleep(0.5)

while condition == 10:
    choice = input("1__Suspend")
    if (choice == "1"):
        while condition == 10:
            p.suspend()
            print("Suspended !")
            time.sleep(0.1)
            p.resume
            print("Resumed !")
    else:
        print("Invalid response")`enter code here`

ERROR Iam getting 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 207, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 366, in suspend
    return cext.proc_suspend(self.pid)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Jacob/PycharmProjects/Suspender.111/Main.py", line 26, in <module>
    p.suspend()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil\__init__.py", line 273, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil\__init__.py", line 1025, in suspend
    self._proc.suspend()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 213, in wrapper
    raise AccessDenied(self.pid, self._name)
psutil.AccessDenied: (pid=3076)

Process finished with exit code 1

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2229

Answers (1)

Pavel St&#225;rek
Pavel St&#225;rek

Reputation: 1039

I think about that you do not have sufficient privileges for process suspending. Some processes in Windows OS (and in other OSes too) runs under another user account, in Windows typically under System account, and normal user can not suspend or kill this processes. Try running your script as Administrator user and there maybe chance that script will be working.

Upvotes: 2

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