Path operations as root

[AndydeCleyre]

Hi,

As discussed a bit over at #9, the way path-operations-as-root must be done presently is not as pythonic as possible, and introduces a wide syntax disparity between those operations and the "same" operations done as the normal user.

I propose that all path operations gain a keyword argument to either activate sudo for that operation, or (more flexibly) specify a user to run that operation as. So something akin to sudo=False, root=False, as_root=False, as_user=None, user=None, or sudo_user=None.

"path operations" refers to these, at least:

• delete
• copy
• move
• symlink
• link
• unlink
• chmod
• chown
• is_file
• is_dir
• exists
• is_symlink
• stat

[AndydeCleyre]

I somehow just noticed (or forgot) about the existing local.as_user context manager. Does that work when nesting path commands?

[kepi]

Please do not forget to about RemotePath. In case of servers where only non-root SSH is possible, code becomes ugly fast.

I suppose this could be added to all methods, but in case list above would be used, please add also mkdir.