From b6879ca2bd620a2d73db9f2598ad67c66aff3bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:01:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #5030 compare connection user and sudo user and disable
 sudo if identical

---
 lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
index aafb07bdfa3..75866fadcad 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
@@ -762,10 +762,12 @@ class Runner(object):
             executable = C.DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE
 
         sudo_user = self.sudo_user
-        
-        if self.remote_user == sudo_user:
-            sudoable = False
-        
+
+        # compare connection user to sudo_user and disable if the same
+        if hasattr(conn, 'user'):
+            if conn.user == sudo_user:
+                sudoable = False
+
         rc, stdin, stdout, stderr = conn.exec_command(cmd, tmp, sudo_user, sudoable=sudoable, executable=executable)
 
         if type(stdout) not in [ str, unicode ]: