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From: | Jeff Forcier |
Subject: | Re: [Fab-user] Fabric 2.4.0 problem - Run method is not being finished |
Date: | Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:37:35 -0500 |
Hi Jeff,
thank you for answer. You are right, executing "su -c 'command'" is working fine:)
This is not exactly what i needed, but it is enough for now.
I would like to clarify one thing. You mentioned that "su" spawns a new shell. Is that a reason why "run" command gets stuck while executing "su"? Or is that because no exit code is being returned?
Regards
Mateusz Glowinski
On 28.12.2018 23:49, Jeff Forcier wrote:
Hi Mateusz,
The problem with `su` is that it spawns a new interactive shell, expecting a human user to continue interacting with that shell during a single overall SSH session. Tools like Fabric spawn a new session for every new `run()` or similar, as described in this FAQ:
Going by my local `man su` it looks like `su` can take a `-c` argument to run its subshell that way (same as directly running the user's login shell with `-c`, which usually means "run this one interpreted string and exit").
So at a basic level you should be able to solve this by replacing:
dss.run("su", watchers=[...])dss.run("whoami")
with:
dss.run("su -c whoami", watchers=[...])
though you'd necessarily need to have ALL subsequent commands mixing in the `su -c` and `watchers=` bits; possibly a good spot for a subroutine or subclass method.
We've got a `prefix` context manager that works well for commands that can be strung together with `&&`, but we don't yet have an equivalent for this sort of use case. We'll probably get one eventually!
Best,Jeff
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:17 PM Mateusz <address@hidden> wrote:
_______________________________________________Hi There,
I'm trying to use fabric library to control subprocesson on linux device. I've prepared a piece of code, which intention is to log as a root user.
I can't use "sudo" method because that is not existing on the system that i want to control. Also logging directly as "root" is impossible. My idea is to log as a "admin" user and then use "su" command to switch to "root" user.Code:
from fabric import Connection from invoke import Responder sudopass = Responder(pattern=r'Password:', response='adminPassword\n') with Connection('192.168.0.106', user="admin", port=22, connect_kwargs={"password": "admin"}) as dss: command = "uname -s" print("Response on {} is: {}".format(command, dss.run(command))) command = "whoami" print("Response on {} is: {}".format(command, dss.run(command))) command = "su" print("Response on {} is after executing su command: {}".format(command, dss.run(command, pty=True, watchers=[sudopass]))) command = "whoami" print("Response on {} is: {}".format(command, dss.run(command))) print("Script end")
Output:
Linux Response on uname -s is: Command exited with status 0. === stdout === Linux (no stderr) dssadmin Response on whoami is: Command exited with status 0. === stdout === dssadmin (no stderr) Password: /home/dssadmin #
As you can see script got stuck after sending "su" command. Any ideas how to solve that?
I'm using:
Python 3.7
Fabric 2.4.0
Thanks in advance
Mateusz Glowinski
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