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Remove whoami check in as command

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reading closed issue #167 and locating the implementation of the as command in SSHKit. Determine where the whoami check is performed; done means that check is removed while the command continues to behave as intended.

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Description

Ref: #167 which is closed

Dominant language
Ruby
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