I’m running a simple script in a VSCode task like this:

.vscode/say_hello.sh:

echo Hello World, this is $(whoami)!

.vscode/tasks.yaml:

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
      {
        "label": "Say Hello",
        "type": "shell",
        "command": "${workspaceFolder}/.vscode/say_hello.sh"
      },
    ]
  }

When I run this task in VSCode normally I get the expected output: Hello World, this is monsdar!. But instead I’d like to run this script as a different user, let’s call him bobby.

Some more detail about my environment:

• Running VSCode on a Windows machine, connected via the “Remote: SSH” plugin to an Ubuntu 22.04 host
• My user has sudo permissions
• The user I’d like to turn into does not have sudo permissions

Is this possible? What’s the most elegant way? At best I can put this task into my repository and other eligible users can run as that user as well. Perhaps even on a different machine.