Would be nice to have a "host.fact.user" fact

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Right now, if I want to get the user that is being used to connect to a given remote machine I have the following options:

• Add group data that specifies the user for a given remote.
• Use host.data.ssh_user (assuming an ssh connection).
• Grab the host.fact.home fact and then split out the user.
• Write a custom fact that does the above.

When running adhoc commands, the first two methods don’t work, and the last two methods require duplicate code in all operations that happen to need the “user,” which works but is not ideal.

Describe the solution you’d like It would be great to have a built-in host.fact.user. The host.fact.home fact is almost what I need, but falls short when it comes to running adhoc commands.

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I like this idea; to get the current user right? Could be implemented by executing whoami, but that would mean calling it with sudo would return root (or the sudo_user), which I think is useful. Ie:

# deploy-no-sudo.py
print(host.fact.user)  # SSH user

vs:

# deploy-with-global-sudo.py

SUDO = True
print(host.fact.user)  # root

This would be the same behaviour we have the host.fact.home. I think to get the SSH user (or winrm user, etc, etc) that is something specific to the connection type, and makes sense to be retrieved from there.

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Now released in v1.3!