multiple users

[Jaime Cham]

Is there a way to tell Capistrano to use different users to log into
the same server for different tasks? this would be useful to deploy as
a particular user without having to grant him sudo password access or
to allow more fine-grained permissions on server files or in certain
situations such as using EC2.

I tried creating multiple roles for the same server with different
users, but this gets into trouble with tasks that apply to all roles
executing twice.

Thanks!

Jaime

[ky]

I have the same question; would like to bump this to the top again.

Is closing existing connections the best way to connect to a host as a
different user, and if so, what's the best way to do that?

[Jamis Buck]

Just define the server multiple times with different user names, and
then classify each task with the appropriate role:

role :foo, "jo...@somehost.com"
role :bar, "bi...@somehost.com"

task :first_task, :roles => :foo do
# ...
end

task :second_task, :roles => :bar do
# ...
end

Note, though, that all hosts, regardless of username, must use the
same password. That, or you must be using public keys (which is the
recommended approach).

- Jamis

[Paul Dowman]

That works when you explicitly define roles for all tasks, but how
can I make sure that default tasks like deploy:setup are not run
twice?

Thanks,
Paul

On Sep 19, 10:48 am, "Jamis Buck" <ja...@37signals.com> wrote:
> Just define the server multiple times withdifferentusernames, and

> then classify each task with the appropriate role:
>

> role :foo, "j...@somehost.com"
> role :bar, "b...@somehost.com"

>
> task :first_task, :roles => :foo do
> # ...
> end
>
> task :second_task, :roles => :bar do
> # ...
> end
>
> Note, though, that all hosts, regardless of username, must use the
> same password. That, or you must be using public keys (which is the
> recommended approach).
>
> - Jamis
>
> On 9/19/07, ky <goo...@boxy.endjunk.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have the same question; would like to bump this to the top again.
>
> > Is closing existing connections the best way to connect to a host as a

> >differentuser, and if so, what's the best way to do that?

[Paul Dowman]

I figured it out, I just added :norelease => true to the role definition.

Paul

[Jaime Cham]

Thanks Paul, I'll try that.

Incidentally, the reason I need this in the first place is because
while using your (awesome) EC2 image, your default setup is not to
allow sudo, so I wanted to log in sometimes as root and sometimes as
app!

Thanks again,

Jaime

> --http://pauldowman.com