Introduction

• The JS7 Agent for Unix is running in a specific user account and by default will execute jobs within the context and permissions of this account.
• Running a job as a different user includes to login as that user, optionally to load the user profile and to execute commands in this context.
• User switching applies to Shell Jobs and is performed by the built-in sudo and su capabilities of the operating system.
• This article applies to the JS7 Agent for Unix only. For Windows environments see JS7 - Running Jobs as a different User

Prerequisites

To allow user switching the Agent's run-time account has to be added to the /etc/sudo.conf file.