Feature: Context manager for sudo.

[Yzupnick]

Being able to switch which user the code is acting as for a given block would be very useful.

Something like:

with c.sudo("application-user"):
   c.run("mkdir /var/www/some-dir") # some-dir has roles/permissions for "application-user"
   c.run("something application-user has permissions for")

I think this would be especially helpful when trying to encapsulate a body of work as a function that takes a context.

Thanks so much for all y'all's work on this library. I am happy to implement this feature if you think it fits into the project.

[emintham]

I've been using sh together with invoke to have that functionality.

[Yzupnick]

Thanks, sh looks like a great library! I never saw it before.

I actually wanted to use it as part of fabric. I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that fabric would inherit the functionality if added here. I probably should have made that clear in the initial description.