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Author upendra-k14
Recipients dstufft, lorenzogotuned, ncoghlan, ned.deily, rhettinger, terry.reedy, upendra-k14
Date 2016-08-26.09:49:01
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I facing problems in running the GUI application with root or elevated privileges. I earlier used gksudo for linux. It turns out be a not very general solution as all linux distros don't have gksudo.

Therefore, how to manage user permissions or group permissions. I want my program to run temporarirly with elevated permissions in order to install, update or uninstall python packages.

I am using subprocess. Is it possible to run subprocess with elevated privileges and again reset the permissions when the shell process ends?
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