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Palpable Coral

Reputation: 105

Replace os.system with os.popen for security purposes

Is it possible to use os.popen() to achieve a result similar to os.system? I know that os.popen() is more secure, but I want to know how to be able to actually run the commands through this function. When using os.system(), things can get very insecure and I want to be able to have a secure way of accessing terminal commands.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1446

Answers (1)

Alec
Alec

Reputation: 9575

Anything that uses the shell to execute commands is insecure for obvious reasons (you don't want someone running rm -rf / in your shell :). Both os.system and os.popen use the shell.

For security, use the subprocess module with shell = False

Either way, both of those functions have been deprecated since Python 2.6

Upvotes: 3

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