Re: [Fab-user] Changing user with sudo and running commands as new user

[Jeff Forcier]

Hi all,

Rahul has it:

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Rahul Menon <address@hidden> wrote:

> And so on, as i dont believe session info persists across each 'run' call.

This is actually in the FAQ:

    
http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.4.3/faq.html#my-cd-workon-export-etc-calls-don-t-seem-to-work

Also as Rahul mentions, one way to solve this is to find one-off
invocations like su <username> -c 'command here' (or the myriad other
possibilities available via sudo or su or combining the two --
depending on your environment.)

It's unfortunate that tasks done by hand don't always translate into
an easy script, but that's the nature of trying to do things
programmatically. Unix is flexible, though -- there are almost always
workarounds.

Best,
Jeff

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Jeff Forcier
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