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- The Universal Agent for Windows is frequently running in the system account or a service account and will execute jobs within the context and permission of this account.
- Running a job as a different user includes to login as that user, optionally load the user profile and execute commands in this context.
- User switching applies to
- All job types (standalone jobs and job chain jobs)
- Shell Jobs
- API jobs in any of the supported languages
- Pre-processing and post-processing Monitors
- This article applies to the Universal Agent for Windows only. For Unix environments there is no need for scheduler based user switching as the built-in
sudoandsucapabilities provide this functionality. Display feature availability StartingFromRelease 1.11.4
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