Use sudo to escalate privilege and try again to copy/edit ini file

Author: dilawar

crates/cli/Cargo.toml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ dialoguer = "0.11"
 libloading = "0.8"
 cargo_metadata = "0.20"
 semver = "1.0"
+sudo = "0.6.0"
 
 [lints.rust]
 missing_docs = "warn"

crates/cli/src/lib.rs

@@ -221,9 +221,16 @@ impl Install {
             ext_dir.push(ext_name);
         }
 
-        std::fs::copy(&ext_path, &ext_dir).with_context(|| {
-            "Failed to copy extension from target directory to extension directory"
-        })?;
+        // We copying of file fails, escalate the privilege and try again.
+        if let Err(_) = std::fs::copy(&ext_path, &ext_dir) {
+            // failed to copy. escalate the privileges and try again.
+            #[cfg(unix)]
+            let _ = sudo::escalate_if_needed().ok();
+
+            std::fs::copy(&ext_path, &ext_dir).with_context(|| {
+                "Failed to copy extension from target directory to extension directory"
+            })?;
+        }
 
         if let Some(php_ini) = php_ini {
             let mut file = OpenOptions::new()