Re: [Fab-user] Multiple usernames and password typos

[Jeff Forcier]

Correct, I only tested this with run(), and looking at sudo() you're
right that it won't work.

The problem as I see it is the initial assumption of having the same
username/password on all hosts (e.g. just grabbing ENV['fab_password']
which will be the last password entered by the user during the
connection phase). I've nixed the username problem, but the password
is still an issue.

I imagine having a more robust global registry of hosts with username
and password defined for each would go a ways towards fixing this.
I'll take a stab at a solution soon.

-Jeff

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christian Vest Hansen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> It's nice to see you take a stab at this, Jeff. :)
>
> I just briefly glanced over your patch and think there'll be a problem
> with the sudo() operation if the different users on the different
> hosts uses different passwords - which I think is pretty likely in the
> event of different users.
>
> I'll look at it closer when I get home from work.
>
>
>
> On 7/4/08, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Alex, folks,
>>
>>  If you check out my Github Fabric fork,
>>  http://github.com/bitprophet/fabric/tree/master, I've just pushed a
>>  fix for your first issue. I could have sworn that Fabric already
>>  supported address@hidden style username overrides in fab_hosts, but it
>>  didn't appear to, so I've added it in :) Seems to work OK for me.
>>
>>  Not sure how you have Fabric installed, but if you aren't able or
>>  willing to use Git to pull down the source (with Git installed you
>>  just need to two commands, "git clone <my git clone URL>" followed by
>>  "sudo python setup.py install", and that will get you the 'fab'
>>  command) just let me know and I'll zip it up for you or whatever you'd
>>  like.
>>
>>  Your second problem will take a bit more work but I might tackle that
>>  today as well, depending on my whims and how easy it is :) Don't know
>>  the paramiko module very well but I hope it would just be some extra
>>  logic on Fabric's end to handle "bad password" exceptions inside a
>>  while loop or some such.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Alex Marandon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  > Hi Christian, hi everyone,
>>  >
>>  > I thought I'd give you a bit a feedback on my experience with Fabric.
>>  >
>>  > Apparently it's not possible to set up multiple user names. I guess
>>  > Fabric makes the assumption that all the servers should be accessed by
>>  > the same user name but it's not always the case. Fabric doesn't seem
>>  > to take into account the rules specified in ~/.ssh/config either, so I
>>  > can't really find a way to work around this limitation.
>>  >
>>  > Another problem is how mistyped passwords are handled. When typing a
>>  > wrong password, Fabric just blows up which is a bit annoying since
>>  > typos can happen when typing multiple passwords in a row.
>>  >
>>  > All the best,
>>  > Alex
>>  >
>>  >
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