Ahh, ok great :). It does indeed run as your own user when run locally. I 
should have tried it out first myself! Thanks!

On Friday, 24 March 2017 11:12:54 UTC, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>
> hello, 
>
> At present the run_as is a noop, the idea is that there will be a web 
> service or similar where playbooks live and where you can branch into 
> other playbooks that might be there too etc. I added the setting because 
> I want to version the playbooks soon and want these playbooks to be 
> usable once the service exist.  Sorry this was a bit misleading. 
>
> At present - and forever when running locally - it runs as your own 
> user. 
>
> It would be bad if on your shell some ruby code could just switch you 
> into another user so on the CLI its always local user. 
>
> Choria has a concept of a 'privileged certificate' that can masquerade 
> others which is how the webservice will do this. 
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017, at 12:02, Daniel Sung wrote: 
> > Choria playbooks need a run_as parameter explicitly set to work. I 
> > currently have it set to "choria=daniels.mcollective". 
> > 
> > Is there a way to have the playbook run as the current user? This would 
> > be 
> > useful if I wanted to write a playbook that could be run by multiple 
> > users. 
> > 
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