Re: execute commands as su on remote server

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In a message of Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:44:53 +0200, Laura Creighton writes:
>I haven't tried this but fabric looks encouraging:
>
>>From http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/api/core/operations.html#fabric.operations.run
>
> fabric.operations.run(*args, **kwargs)
>
>    Run a shell command on a remote host.
>
>    ...
>
>    Any text entered in your local terminal will be forwarded to the
>    remote program as it runs, thus allowing you to interact with
>    password or other prompts naturally
>
>    ...
>
>    You may pass pty=False to forego creation of a pseudo-terminal on
>    the remote end in case the presence of one causes problems for the
>    command in question.
>
>Laura
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And now that I started looking, I found this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12641514/switch-to-different-user-using-fabric

so, somebody got it to work ...

Laura

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execute commands as su on remote server harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-08-17 19:57 -0700
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 13:06 +1000
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-08-18 23:58 -0700
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-08-19 00:02 -0700
    Re: execute commands as su on remote server Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-19 10:44 +0200
    Re: execute commands as su on remote server Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-19 10:51 +0200
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-09-01 05:16 -0700
    Re: execute commands as su on remote server Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-01 15:25 +0200
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-09-02 09:05 +0200
  Re: execute commands as su on remote server harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-10-01 00:10 -0700

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