[[chef-dev]] Sudo -i in bootstrap

[Stephen Nelson-Smith < >]

Hello,

Cucumber-chef uses chef to bootstrap a 'test lab' - ie an LXC host.
It then installs a container, on which chef also runs.

The way LXC wroks is to provide shell scripts - so-called templates
which set up chroots and perform various bits of configuration.  I've
modified the default lucid template to install Ruby and Chef and a few
other bits and bobs, and to drop off a validation pem.  The trouble is
that this template gets called by chef, as part of a bootstrap, which
uses sudo.  The result of this is that $HOME gets passed through as
/home/ubuntu, which breaks gem installation in the container.  If I
monkey patch bootstrap.rb to use sudo -i not sudo, it all works.

Questions:

1) Can anyone suggest a better approach?
2) Can anyone think of any drawbacks to having sudo use -i?

Thanks,

S.
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