Tatva-Artha » scp http://www.tatvartha.com meaning of "it" Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:00:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Capistrano: Uploading file with different owner http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/05/capistrano-uploading-file-with-different-owner/ http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/05/capistrano-uploading-file-with-different-owner/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 16:33:30 +0000 admin http://www.tatvartha.com/?p=143 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Normally when working with capistrano, you choose to execute your commands on remote machine with a root user or non-root user. For root level activity, you don’t actually use “root” account but instead provide a “deploy” user “sudo” privileges and then leverage capistrano’s “use_sudo => true” option.

This still leaves you out in cold when you want to transfer a file and put it in a directory where your sudo user doesn’t have permission. In theory, what this needs is transferring/uploading/scp/sftp-ing that file to a /tmp and then using “sudo mv old_location new_location” to accomplish the task.

I ended up writing a utility method to do this but kept wondering that the need is so common that an inbuilt (and better) utility should exist. And then I found std.su_put.

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