how to use username instead of uid ?

[s4miii]

Hello, thank you for the great idea and the beautiful code you wrote.
I wonder if there is a way we can switch to another user instead of root?I mean, is there any way to change this line setuid(0); to something like setuser(root); ?
or better to ask, how to give the user's name instead of the user's uid?

I know my question may seem ridiculous, but I would be grateful if you could help me.

Thank you

[flashnuke]

you can use a workaround to generate the userid using the username + the pwd module (which belongs to the standard library) and then pass it to setuid()

import pwd

user_id=pwd.getpwnam("username_here").pw_uid

# i.e: pwd.getpwnam("root").pw_uid = 0