Re: run 'some' code as a different user? NET::SSH?

Brian Candler wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:48:37AM +0900, John Clisham wrote:
is running under.

Is this possible? Any ideas?

The user will authenticate by providing their OS username and password?

Perhaps you could use PTY.spawn and run 'su - username'


Yes, I will authenticate useing their OS username and password. I
haven't used PTY.spawn before. Does it just spawn off a new psuedo
terminal? After doing a 'su -username' and authenicating; I want to
execute a block of ruby code as that user. Ideally that block would
return a ruby object that I could then manipulate in the broader app.
(ie since this is a Rails app, I would execute controller code as the
authenticated user (ie to get job files); and use one set of views for
all users.

Am I making sense or over thinking this? Basically, I'm trying to avoid
calling everything in shell's and reading in stdout. I'm trying to stay
completely in Ruby here.

THanks!
KF

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