Re: [Fab-user] Logging out as a user

[Erich Heine]

My understanding is that the work flow is:

1. Do fab cleanup actions as address@hidden
2. do admin tasks as address@hidden

I think the problem is coming because via the connection cache there is still connection and process owned by the UID Brett is trying to delete. Is there an easy way to force close a connection? 

There will of course be a problem with part 2 if it is being done with a sudo() call, since that is the equivelent of sudo rmuser me.  (which fails)

Regards,
Erich

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Brett,

Currently, Fabric's operations like run() and sudo() just look at
env.host_string to determine which connection to use (and these are
cached.)

So to force a new connection as a different user, simply set
env.host_string to address@hidden:current_port, and subsequent
calls to operations will use that new connection. (Eventually the
other env vars will be more intelligently used -- right now they're
used for defaults or are effectively read-only.)

A one-time overwrite of that setting will make the switch for the rest
of the session/script; or you can use the context manager to effect
the change only for a single block of code, e.g.:

  address@hidden('address@hidden')
   def foo():
       # Connecting as userA
       run('something')
       sudo('something else')
       with settings(host_string='address@hidden'):
           # Connecting as userB
           run('something as user B')
       # Connecting as userA again
       run('yet another something')

For more details on how host connections work, see the 'Usage docs'
section of docs.fabfile.org.

Best,
Jeff

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Brett Haydon
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to switch ssh users from A to B and then remove user A on
> Ubuntu, but it always says that account A is in use.
> I don't seem to be able to explicitly log the user out.
> Is there a way to effectively do this?
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