add example of using non-root user with sudo

other/examples/remote/sudo/copy

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2012 Matt Coddington (mcoddington at gmail.com)
+# 2012 Steven Armstrong (steven-cdist at armstrong.cc)
+# 2013 Chase Allen James (nx-cdist at nu-ex.com)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+# Use rsync over ssh to copy files.  Uses the "--rsync-path" option
+# to run the remote rsync instance with sudo.
+#
+# This command assumes your ssh configuration is already set up
+# in ~/.ssh/config.
+#
+# Usage:
+#  cdist config --remote-copy /path/to/this/script target_host
+#
+
+# For rsync to do the right thing, the source has to end with "/" if it is
+# a directory. The below preprocessor loop takes care of that.
+
+# second last argument is the source
+source_index=$(($#-1))
+index=0
+for arg in $@; do
+   if [ $index -eq 0 ]; then
+      # reset $@
+      set --
+   fi
+   index=$((index+=1))
+   if [ $index -eq $source_index -a -d "$arg" ]; then
+      arg="${arg%/}/"
+   fi
+   set -- "$@" "$arg"
+done
+
+rsync --copy-links --rsync-path="sudo rsync" -e 'ssh' "$@"

other/examples/remote/sudo/exec

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2013 Chase Allen James (nx-cdist at nu-ex.com)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# Prefixes all remote commands with sudo.
+#
+# This command assumes your ssh configuration is already set up
+# in ~/.ssh/config.
+#
+# Usage:
+#  cdist config --remote-exec "/path/to/this/script" target_host
+#
+
+host="$1"; shift
+ssh -q "$host" sudo "$@"