Vagrant: Ability to run file provisioner in sudo mode

[anandsuresh]

Would be great to have a sudo mode for the file provisioner to copy files to certain locations that are owned by root. E.g. The /vagrant folder is owned by root on CentOS 6.5. Attempting to copy a file into that folder fails with the following:

Failed to upload a file to the guest VM via SCP due to a permissions
error. This is normally because the SSH user doesn't have permission
to write to the destination location. Alternately, the user running
Vagrant on the host machine may not have permission to read the file.

[mitchellh]

The file provisioner uses SCP, which doesn't have a sudo mode exactly, since it connects via the SSH user. We recommend you just use the file provisioner to copy to a temp folder, then the shell provsiioner to copy.

[kpx-dev]

I ran into the same issue where I needed to copy the .dockercfg file to root. Thanks for the suggestion, I got it working with this:

c.vm.provision "file", source: Dir.getwd + "/keys/.dockercfg", destination: "~/.dockercfg"

c.vm.provision "shell" do |s|
  s.inline = "apt-get update -y; DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install docker.io mysql-server -y; cp /home/vagrant/.dockercfg /root/.dockercfg"
  s.privileged = true
end

[leaveye]

Being bite by this, provision job has not enough permission feature, I really think the solution above is ugly. Anyone agree with me?

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