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Control your PC from Python Code

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Hey guys, One of the easiest programming languages in the World is our Python. Here this post is intended for those who want to learn the hacking techniques! Here I would like to share simple 4lines of Python hack tricks that make shutdown or restart your PC. The logic here is that have the function contains the CMD Command line 'shutdown' with forceful(/s) timeout as 1 minute.


Shutdown logic is here...
import os
def shutdown():
    os.system("shutdown /s /t 1")
shutdown()

Restart logic is here 
import os
def restart():
    os.system("shutdown /r /t 1")
restart()

Jump to Linux VM and same thought to execute the same script then it failed! "Must be root." The solution there you need to be superuser to shutdown your Linux machine.

To have better understand about the shutdown command in Linux operating system, used the --help option. 
[vagrant@mydev ~]$ sudo shutdown --help
shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...]

Shut down the system.

     --help      Show this help
  -H --halt      Halt the machine
  -P --poweroff  Power-off the machine
  -r --reboot    Reboot the machine
  -h             Equivalent to --poweroff, overridden by --halt
  -k             Don't halt/power-off/reboot, just send warnings
     --no-wall   Don't send wall message before halt/power-off/reboot
  -c             Cancel a pending shutdown

On Linux the script will be as follows: 
import os
def shutdown():
    os.system("shutdown -h")
shutdown()

The output is as follows for the Linux platform.
Linux Python Execution

Enhancement of the script 
import os
import sys

def shutdown(platform):
    if platform=='linux2':
        os.system("shutdown -s")
    elif platform=='win32':
        os.system("shutdown /s /t 1")

def restart(platform):
    if platform=='linux2':
        os.system("shutdown -r")
    elif platform=='win32':
        os.system("shutdown /r /t 1")

# The main program starts here
platform=sys.platform
print platform
opt=sys.argv[1]
if opt=='s':
    print 'Shutting down your PC!!'
    shutdown(platform)
elif opt=='r':
    print 'Rebooting...'
    restart(platform)
else:
    print 'Invalid option'
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