Switching user in Fabric

Question

I have a problem when using Fabric to mimic my SSH workflow to deploy my web application.

Here\'s my usual flow of commands when I SSH to a server:

1. SS

Answer 1

The way I achieve this is with

from fabric.api import settings

with settings(user='otheruser'):
    ...

You will be prompted for the password of otheruser, though only once. So it is not equivalent so sudo su otheruser, where root logs in to the user account without a password, but is is a simple way to switch between users in your script, only typing each password once