https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68156
Bug ID: 68156
Summary: become should complain more clearly if the user is not
(in this session) a member of the tool
Product: Wikimedia Labs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
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At the moment, if you try to become a tool that you are not a member of, the
error message is rather cryptic:
| scfc@tools-login:~$ become coursestats
| sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo
| scfc@tools-login:~$
Krinkle suggested in #wikimedia-labs that we test whether the user is a member
of the tool and in that case provide a more meaningful message.
If I'm not mistaken, we could also use that for the common: "You have to log
out and in again!" case where the tool's members have been updated, but the
user's session groups do not reflect that. I. e., if "getent group
tools.$TOOL" shows the user as a member, but "groups" (?) doesn't show the
tool's group, the user could be advised to log out and in again.
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