Allow non privileged user vagrant to run a shell provision

[frsantos]

Sometimes, after provisioning the server, I need to make some initial configurations in the project, without superuser privileges. For example, bundle the project gems, import assets and/or db data from the integration server, etc. Some of these tasks are better performed by the user vagrant, and some of them don't even work when performed by root (because of ssh agent forwarding lost after sudo'ing and su'ing).

This pull request allows a shell provision by the unprivileged vagrant user:

config.vm.provision :shell, :path => 'path/to/my/script', :privileged => false

[kynan]

That'd be really great to have, please consider merging this.

[philippgerard]

Yes, please - I need that feature, too.

[johnbellone]

+1 I definitely need this feature!

[danielpcox]

bump

[johnbellone]

This actually would be greatly useful to be in master.

Right now I actually need to drop out of provisioning to perform a deploy with capistrano. If this was here it'd be a nice and easy pattern to first deploy with Chef using Vagrant, and then have a final step which executes a local capistrano deploy.

This is obviously only a single use case and just so happens to be the one that I have. But I am sure there are many other options we could consider. Executing as a separate role account other than vagrant?

[kretes]

+1 some provisioning operations needs to be executed as non-root user, it would be good to have it in vagrant instead of doing sudo in the scripts

[styx]

👍

IMHO: might be you should add some acceptance test here?

[parshap]

👍 For ssh agent forwarding and explicit sudo

It seems that @mitchellh originally intended for the non-privileged vagrant user to be the default shell provisioner (#105 (comment)) but later forgot about it (#482 (comment)).

It may be too late to change the default behavior, but an option like this would be useful.

[AdamMagaluk]

+1 this would really help.

[mitchellh]

Merged. Enjoy!