sudo ohai reports root as current_user instead of the value of SUDO_USER about ohai HOT 5 CLOSED

Yes that was the intent of the PR.

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Thanks @lamont-granquist

Is there a recommended way to determine the SUDO_USER within a chef recipe? We used to rely on node['current_user'] for this. Should we use `ENV['SUDO_USER'] or is there an attribute exposed for this?

The convenient thing about the old behavior is that it permitted a run list with a mix of recipes that require sudo and recipes that don't.

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Commented on #386 as well, fwiw.

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ENV['SUDO_USER'] is most likely what you want, i think that's better than the old code for current_user for your use case.

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ENV['SUDO_USER'] appears to work well for Sprout, closing this issue.

Thanks!

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