Merge pull request #1 from barkingiguana/random-tmp-filename

Use a random filename to reduce name collisions
barkingiguana · Apr 10, 2017 · 0c48488 · 0c48488
2 parents 35f065b + 5cfccbb
commit 0c48488
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/library/chage.py b/library/chage.py
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
 import shlex
 import os
 import json
+import random
+import string
 
 args_file = sys.argv[1]
 args_data = file(args_file).read()
@@ -86,8 +88,9 @@
     sys.exit(1)
 
 def chage_check(user):
-  os.system('chage -l "%s" > tmp' % user)
-  return open('tmp', 'r').read()
+  filename = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(32))
+  os.system('chage -l "%s" > %s' % (user, filename))
+  return open(filename, 'r').read()
 
 before = chage_check(user)