Okay, I've been working on a pythonbased 'hacktool' with helps penetration testers install some basic tools on Mac.
Now most of these tools require a root user to be activated, so I need an easy way to activate the root user (On mac this can be done by 'passwd root' sadly that requires another input to be typed)
Need some help here guys, running low on time and the internet won't give me any helpful answers. :S
There is a command in OSX called 'dsenableroot' which did exactly what I wanted it to do. The command works like this:
dsenableroot -u yourusername -p yourpassword -r rootpassword
It does exactly what it is supposed to do, now I just need a workaround on the 'yourpassword' part, since I don't know the password of the Users computer. Will post updates here!
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Wish You all beautiful sunny day! :D,
I have a question for You guys. I have following python "script":
import os
os.system('ubuntu.exe')
Which opens Ubuntu running on my WSL. And now, when the Ubuntu terminal appears:
I would like to execute following commands: sudo /etc/init.d/dbus start and sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start using my python script (just do them automatically). However, when I run one of the commands above, terminal requests my password:
So the script should be also able to enter the password.
Is there any way, how to do it?
Kind regards,
D.
While the question/answers linked in the comments is a good read (sudoers in particular), there's a better method for WSL. Instead of using ubuntu.exe, use the newer wsl.exe replacement. The wsl command offers more control over the startup, including being able to change the user:
import os
os.system('wsl ~ -u root -e sh -c "nohup service xrdp start"')
os.system('wsl -u root service dbus start')
The nohup is needed because of what seems to be a timing issue. When starting up via the WSL command, the shell (owning process) will terminate before xrdp gets a chance to fork. nohup just makes sure that the full xrdp init script gets a chance to run before that happens. This really isn't a WSL issue, per se. It can also be replicated if you were do something similar with exec sh -c "sudo service xrdp start".
A couple of other notes. First, this does not require a password, since WSL doesn't have the concept of "login." The /init process (WSL's PID1 and initialization) is responsible for setting the owning user for each session. This is not considered a security risk since even the root WSL user runs with no greater than the permissions of the Windows user.
Also note that, in my experience, it's not necessary to start dbus for xrdp access, even though I've seen instructions that say it is. Ultimately it will depend on what you want to run within the xrdp session, of course.
I will preface this with, I know questions like this have been asked, but I feel as I can't find my answer.
My question is this: I downloaded Python about 2 months ago to begin learning it. I just recently starting trying to use the terminal more and would like to move forward using it a lot for commits and package installs.
Unfortunately I am having a very hard time getting Python to run properly through either Git Bash or Windows Powershell. I think i may have moved files around too much before even starting with using the terminal and now I'm not sure what's correct.
Should I uninstall and re-install?
I am on Windows 10, any advice onhow to organize my files properly so everything can run correctly. I would also like to be able to open my text editor from the terminal, PyCharm or Atom.
Thanks in advance!!
Try first to simplified your PATH (as I did here) in a CMD session.
set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
set GIT_HOME=C:\Path\to\Git
set PATH=%GIT_HOME%;%GIT_HOME%\bin;%GIT_HOME%\usr\bin;%PATH%
SET PATH=C:\Users\Aerovistae\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32;%PATH%
Once you have the right path, you can replicate it in your user environment variables.
(replace C:\Users\Aerovistae\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32 by your own Python2 installation path)
Then type bash and check python does work.
I'm trying to do a live capture with pyshark, but it wants to run tshark using sudo. I'm not sure how to run sudo out of python. The github thread states: "you can create a 'script' that just runs "sudo tshark" and tell pyshark to run that instead of tshark."
Buuuuut I'm not too sure how to do that. I was looking at Using sudo with Python script
but again not sure how to "run that instead of tshark"
Has anyone done this? Can anyone advise?
Bit more info here: If you're an admin user, you don' t need sudo to run "tshark -c 100 -i en0". If you "sudo chmod 777 /dev/bpf*" that works for things like Carnivore in Processing, but does zip all for Pyshark. Trying to edit Startup items to give you read access is moot on OSX because Yosemite tossed it.
Other info: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138694/what-is-access-bpf-group
I'm really starting to think something is just up w/ PyShark itself.
Thanks
Don't use sudo to run Wireshark. Instead, configure your user account to be able to use Wireshark without root access. Detailed instructions are here: https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/7976/wireshark-setup-linux-for-nonroot-user
WELP. turns out it was just because I hadn't used 'en0' Marking this as solved. HA.
I have a project in Ninja-IDE that I need to run as root. How can I do that from the IDE? I tried to run the project after running Ninja-IDE as root but that did not work. I still get 'permission denied' when running my project.
Here: I found the source code for this project, searched for "F6", searched for the resulting term "execute-project", searched for the resulting term, "execute_project", followed the code a bit, found the eventual call to a sort of generic "call executable" helper. It in turn leads to a 'run widget', which handles the pre-execute, execute, and post-execute for project execution.
Here's the link to that portion of the code.
All this is to say that it might be as simple as changing settings.PYTHON_EXEC to "sudo python". Depending on your OS, this might break, since sudo will likely be looking for a password. It's a good start though, I think ;)
For sudo and password prompt issues, try this thread on askubuntu.
I am running Windows 7 and just installed Python 2.7.4 and all I get are SyntaxError:'s. For example when I type:
>>>ls
I get
Traceback (most recent call last):
file "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'ls' is not defined.
I am new to Python and have no idea what the problem is.
Math calculations work as well as code seems to work. It's just commands like cd, ls, sudo apt-get update (and upgrade). Any guidance would be appreciated.
I think it's unfortunate that you're being downvoted so heavily here. If you're new to programming, this can be an honest mistake to make since a lot of tutorials assume that you're already familiar with the command line.
The main problem you have (as others have pointed out) is distinguishing between the operating system shell (which is also known as the console, terminal, command line, or command prompt) and the Python shell.
The operating system shell/command prompt is one of the fundamental ways you can interact with your computer. When you open the command prompt, you run arbitrary programs by typing in their name, run commands such as ls, sudo, cd, and apt-get.
If you type in python, for example, it'll cause the command prompt to start the Python shell. From there, you can run all of the Python commands, as usual. However, this is an entirely separate program with an entirely separate set of rules. The things you can do in the command prompt will not work in Python, and vice-versa.
Now, another point of confusion is distinguishing between the Windows command prompt and the Linux command prompt. You can install and run Python in both, but certain commands (in particular, sudo and apt-get) are available only on Linux operating systems. Unfortunately, the rules for using the Windows command prompt and the Linux command prompt differ somewhat, meaning that some instructions you find will be applicable only in one kind of operating system.
So no wonder you're confused! You're trying to learn about Python, but a good number of tutorials/articles will mention this second, entirely different system with hardly a word of introduction, and expect you to already know how to use it.
If you're curious about learning more about using the command line, here's a good crash course you can read. It'll teach you what you need to know for all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Linux, and Mac) and will hopefully make what you read online more clear.
I see from your profile you are learning about Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi can use Debian (or Ubuntu, which is based on Debian) as the Linux distribution. The commands you are trying in Python are shell commands to run on that operating system.
Python is another command you can run on Raspberry Pi, but that doesn't mean that installing Python on Windows gives you those other commands on Windows too. You have two entirely different things confused here.
it's just commands like cd, ls, sudo apt-get update (and upgrade). Any
guidance would be appreciated
Python doesn't support those commands. Those are operating system level commands, not python level commands.
The Root of my problem was that I was not asking the right question. I was trying to run scripts in the interactive-mode and entering 'ls' and 'dir' to see where I was in the directory. With everyone's guidance I finally found the part in the Docs about Executable Python Scripts that said Windows automatically associates the 'py' extension with python.exe.
here. Then it all came together in my head. I had associated the 'py' extension with my editor instead of python and that I should have been at the Windows command prompt.
Thanks for everyone's help and quick responses.
The answers above are correct, but they don't help you with your issue!
One solution that will work in Python is:
%ls