Re: [psutil] Get working directory of another user process?

[Jay Loden]

Are you running this as the root user? A regular end user account will not be able to access the information for another process due to privileges rights. This is normal behavior for Linux - you need to run the script as a root user, with sudo for temporary root privileges, or as the end user that created the process. 

-Jay

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Richard <rich...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, 

I am using v0.4.1 on Linux with Python 2.7.3.

Is it possible to get the working directory of a process started by another user? 

I can access other details but not the working directory:

>>> p = psutil.Process(OTHER_USER_PROCESS_ID) 

>>> p.cmdline

[...]

>>> p.name

...

>>> p.getcwd() 

 AccessDenied Exception

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