I have a fabfile.py for my django project that I'm using for auto-deploy. I use getpass to prompt the user for sudo password on the server, then set env.password, however, when I run other commands, like run('sudo mkdir foo/bar') I get prompted for sudo password with each time a sudo command is run.
Here is the code (sorry for the horrible code block, still a new poster to the site):
def initial_deploy(*args, **kwargs):
args = dict([(x, True) for x in args] + kwargs.items())
env.user = args.get('user','webiken')
password = getpass('Please provide sudo password for user %(user)s ' % dict(user=env.user))
if password:
env['password'] = password
env['sudo_prompt'] = 'sending sudo password...'
app_name = args.get('app','webiken-demo')
now = datetime.now()
year = now.year
dt = now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S')
cmd = 'sudo rm -rf /opt/%(app_name)s' % dict(app_name=app_name)
run(cmd)
cmd = 'sudo mkdir -p /opt/%(app_name)s/%(year)s/' % dict(
app_name = app_name,
year = year
)
run(cmd)
cmd = '/opt/%(app_name)s/%(year)s' % dict(
app_name = app_name,
year = year
)
with cd(cmd):
run('sudo git clone git@localhost:%(app_name)s.git %(now)s' % dict(
app_name = app_name,
now = dt
))
run('sudo ln -s /opt/%(app_name)s/%(year)s/%(now)s /opt/%(app_name)s/current' % dict(
app_name = app_name,
year = year,
now = dt
))
Don't write your own code to request a password; try using Fabric's sudo
command instead.