Cap 2.6 - Run as another user

[Gokulakrishnan Sarangaraju]

Versions:

• Ruby - 1.8.7
• Capistrano - 2.6.0
• Rake / Rails / etc

Platform:

• Working on....CentOS
• Deploying to... CentOS

Logs: 

Even though "deployuser" has the rights to switch to "admin" user without entering password, cap script is expecting password to be entered. 

-bash-4.1$ cap -f /tmp/captest-user.cap deploy

  * executing `deploy'

  * executing "whoami"

    servers: ["host1"]

    [host1] executing command

 ** [out :: host1] deployuser

    command finished in 69ms

  * executing "sudo -p 'sudo password: ' -u admin /data/myapplication/script.sh stop"

    servers: ["host1"]

    [host1] executing command

Password:

Files:

• Capfile
• default_run_options[:pty] = true
• role :app, "host1"
• task :deploy, roles => :app do
• run "whoami"
• run "/data/myapplication/script.sh stop", :shell => "sudo su - cmsadmin"
• run "tail -f /home/apache-tomcat-7.0.67/logs/catalina.out | sed '/^INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler/ q'"
• run "sudo puppet agent --confdir=/home/puppet --waitforcert 60 --test; true"
• end

In 2.6 is there a way i can execute commands on behalf of another user ("admin" in my case)? If so how? I understand that this is possible with the help of https://github.com/fundingcircle/sshkit-backends-netssh_global in Cap 3.0. But i would like to know if it is achievable using 2.6 or should i have to upgrade it? 

Any pointers will help me a lot. Thanks!

[William Johnston]

I'd suggest upgrading. You might be able to find people to help you
with this older version, but most people (IMO) have upgraded and will
be able to support Capistrano 3.

~William Johnston

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[Gokulakrishnan Sarangaraju]

Sure William. I will upgrade to 3.1 or to a latest version for future queries. 

btw i was able to solve that issue with by allowing commands to be executed while switching user (sudo su - admin -c "command here"). It has nothing to do with Capistrano version. 

Regards,
Gokul

[William Johnston]

I'm glad to hear you got it working! Thanks for reporting back.

~Willam

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