I am automating a system to create users in python and run a python script through the user. Here is the code I am running along with the error. The root is creating a user and then running the file as root. The folder being copied from skel looks like this /etc/skel/newFolder. username variable is 'newUser'
os.system('sudo adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" ' + username)
path = '/home/'+username+'/newFolder'
path.replace("'", r"\'")
print(subprocess.run("test -e '{}'".format(path), shell=True))
subprocess.run("sudo python3 '{}'".format(path), shell=True)
print(os.path.isfile(path))
Error
Adding user 'newUser' ...
Adding new group 'newUser' (1000) ...
Adding new user 'newUser' (1000) with group `newUser' ...
Creating home directory `/home/newUser' ...
Copying files from '/etc/skel' ...
CompletedProcess(args="test -e '/home/newUser/newFolder'", returncode=1)
python3: can't open file '/home/newUser/newFolder/pythonFile.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
The return code of 1 means the test said this 'newFolder' copied from skel doesn't exist. And of course python3 cant find the python file. If I go through the terminal and look for this directory, it does exist. Very frustrating please help.
