Set permissions/ownership of file that is copied

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Issue details

Allow for changing the ownership/permissions of the file that is copied to the remote host. Ideally, this would take advantage of sudo if needed.

The use case is: you have set up a regular user with sudo permissions and an ssh key on the remote host (with something like cloud-init), and you want to add a file to /etc/ for a service that needs to be owned by a specific user. If your regular user doesn't have permission to write to /etc/, you need a way to escalate their permissions.

This would also be important for removing or editing the file.