I am unable to pass server password with subprocess.Popen in Django. Here's my full views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
import subprocess
def upload_file(request):
'''This function produces the form which allows user to input session_name, their remote host name, username
and password of the server. User can either save, load or cancel the form. Load will execute couple Linux commands
that will list the files in their remote host and server.'''
if request.method == 'POST':
# session_name = request.POST['session']
url = request.POST['hostname']
username = request.POST['username']
global password
password = request.POST['password']
global source
source = str(username) + "@" + str(url)
command = subprocess.Popen(['rsync', '--list-only', source],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
env={'RSYNC_PASSWORD': password}).communicate()[0]
result1 = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '/home/zurelsoft/R'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
result = ''.join(result1)
return render_to_response('thanks.html', {'res':result, 'res1':command}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
pass
return render_to_response('form.html', {'form': 'form'}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
Here's the form that I take user input from:
<fieldset>
<legend>Session</legend>
<label for="input-one" class="float"><strong>Session Name:</strong></label><br />
<input class="inp-text" name="session" id="sess" type="text" size="30" /><br />
<label for="input-two" class="float"><strong>RemoteHost:</strong></label><br />
<input class="inp-text" name="hostname" id="host" type="text" size="30" />
<label for="input-three" class="float"><strong>Username:</strong></label><br />
<input class="inp-text" name="username" id="user" type="text" size="30" />
<label for="input-four" class="float"><strong>Password:</strong></label><br />
<input class="inp-text" name="password" id="pass" type="password" size="30" />
</fieldset>
What am I doing wrong? Password is not passed from environment_variable.