Re: Using Capistrano to sudo su as another user

I have the same problem, any solutions?

On Dec 7, 1:45 pm, David Adams 
<davead...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I love the idea of Capistrano, but it's not working for me in my
> environment. I hope there's something simple I'm missing, but I'm not
> sure. Here's the situation:
>
> I don't have root on the app servers I need to automate. For each
> application, we have a Unix user for which I don't have the password,
> but which owns all the appropriate application files. To administer an
> app, I log in with my personal account, and then I "sudo su - svcuser"
> to become the service account, run whatever commands I need, then
> logout twice.
>
> Unfortunately, my limited understanding of Capistrano has failed me at
> this point. eg:
>
> task :sudo_test do
>   sudo "su - svcuser"
>   run "whoami"
> end
>
> I get prompted for my password, but then I get the shell prompt of the
> svcuser's shell as output and everything hangs.
>
> Any ideas? Let me know if you need more information. I appreciate the
> help.
>
> David Adams