The documentation says

If a task specifically sudo's or cd's then the global setting will not take effect.

But that does not seem to be the case. I log in as user a and need to run most commands as user b. Simply setting config.owner to b is enough to make that work.

I also need to run some commands using sudo and only user a is in my sudoers file.

This plugin should ignore tasks that already start with sudo.

The task I'm having problems with is:

task :unmonitor do
  on roles(:app) do
    sudo :monit, 'unmonitor', fetch(:application)
  end
end

The actual version of the plugin conflicts with the sshkit dependency of the lastest version of Capistrano (3.5.0).

Gem::ConflictError: Unable to activate sshkit-backends-netssh_global-0.0.1, because sshkit-1.10.0 conflicts with sshkit (= 1.7.1)
/home/lucas.diedrich/projetos/teste_capis/Capfile:7:in `<top (required)>'
Gem::ConflictError: Unable to activate sshkit-backends-netssh_global-0.0.1, because sshkit-1.10.0 conflicts with sshkit (= 1.7.1)

I have require 'sshkit/backends/netssh_global' in my capfile and then in my deploy.rb I have:

SSHKit.config.backend = SSHKit::Backend::NetsshGlobal
SSHKit::Backend::NetsshGlobal.configure do |config|
  config.owner        = 'username'
  config.directory    = '/home/username'
  config.ssh_commands = [:git]
  config.shell        = 'bash -l'
end

But it doesnt seem to make a difference to the username used to run the default capistrano commands. Is there anything I am missing?