execute commands as su on remote server

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:44:53 +0200, Laura Creighton writes:
>I haven't tried this but fabric looks encouraging:
>
>>From http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/api/core/operations.html#fabric.operations.run
>
> fabric.operations.run(*args, **kwargs)
>
>    Run a shell command on a remote host.
>
>    ...
>
>    Any text entered in your local terminal will be forwarded to the
>    remote program as it runs, thus allowing you to interact with
>    password or other prompts naturally
>
>    ...
>
>    You may pass pty=False to forego creation of a pseudo-terminal on
>    the remote end in case the presence of one causes problems for the
>    command in question.
>
>Laura
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And now that I started looking, I found this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12641514/switch-to-different-user-using-fabric

so, somebody got it to work ...

Laura