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Running self.mount_a.run_as_root(args='ls ~') leads to following error -

2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:  File "/home/rishabh/repos/ceph/minor/qa/tasks/cephfs/mount.py", line 542, in run_as_root
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:    return self.run_as_user(**kwargs)
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:  File "/home/rishabh/repos/ceph/minor/qa/tasks/cephfs/mount.py", line 535, in run_as_user
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:    check_status=check_status, cwd=cwd)
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:  File "../qa/tasks/vstart_runner.py", line 356, in run
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:    return self._do_run(**kwargs)
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:  File "../qa/tasks/vstart_runner.py", line 361, in _do_run
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:    args = self._perform_checks_and_return_list_of_args(args, omit_sudo)
2020-06-17 23:02:30,000.000 INFO:__main__:  File "../qa/tasks/vstart_runner.py", line 346, in _perform_checks_and_return_list_of_args
2020-06-17 23:02:30,001.001 INFO:__main__:    raise RuntimeError(errmsg)
2020-06-17 23:02:30,001.001 INFO:__main__:RuntimeError: The entire command to executed as other user should be a single argument.
2020-06-17 23:02:30,001.001 INFO:__main__:args - ['sudo', '-u', 'root', '-s', '/bin/bash', '-c', 'ls', '~']

Because method _perform_checks_and_return_list_of_args splits all args which is not the correct way. Passing ls ~ leads to args ['sudo', '-u', 'root', '-s', '/bin/bash', '-c', 'ls', '~']. The correct arrangement of arguments should be ['sudo', '-u', 'root', '-s', '/bin/bash', '-c', 'ls ~'].