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What is the best manner of launching a subprocess as a different user in Python on Windows? Preferably XP and up, but if it works only on Vista and 7, I can live with that too.
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os. system is equivalent to Unix system command, while subprocess was a helper module created to provide many of the facilities provided by the Popen commands with an easier and controllable interface. Those were designed similar to the Unix Popen command.
Popen do we need to close the connection or subprocess automatically closes the connection? Usually, the examples in the official documentation are complete. There the connection is not closed. So you do not need to close most probably.
I am not sure if you can do this with the standard python libraries. However, the pywin32 package has a win32process.CreateProcessAsUser function which may be what you need.
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Another option is to popen not the desired process but runas ... command. Note that the Run As service should be enabled and running.
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