The USERNAME/PASSWORD values for the PROCESS START request are the
usernames and passwords from the operating system. I believe your process
is actually running under the specified (non-root) userid; however, on
Unix machines, the environment variables for the user are not set for the
process because it doesn't run the scripts that set up the environment for
the user.
So, if you run the following:
# STAF local PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND whoami USERNAME test PASSWORD
testpassword RETURNSTDOUT WAIT
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 0
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data : test
}
]
}
So you see that it is running the process under the specified userid.
However, as you noted, if you run "echo $HOME" as the command:
# STAF local PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND "echo \$HOME" USERNAME test
PASSWORD testpassword RETURNSTDOUT WAIT
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 0
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data : /home/root
}
]
}
You can use the ENV option on a PROCESS START request to specify
environment variables that you want to specify for a username:
# STAF local PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND "echo \$HOME" USERNAME test
PASSWORD testpassword RETURNSTDOUT WAIT ENV "HOME=/home/test"
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 0
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data : /home/test
}
]
}
David Bender
STAF/STAX Development
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IBM Austin Bldg. 903-5B002
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"Ahmed Mostafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject
[staf-users] [STAF] Starting a process under a different user on UNIX
Hello,
I'm using STAF 3.3.0 on an AIX 6.1 operating system and want to start a
process under a different user, the following command:
staf local PROCESS Start Shell Command "echo" Parms "$HOME" Wait UserName
user_name ReturnStdOut
returns: /home/root, because STAF is running under it (user_name is
another one). The configuration file contains the command:
Set PROCESSAUTHMODE NONE
does the UserName parameter use user names from the Authenticator's file?
r from the operating system? and how can I execute processes under a
different system users?
Thanks
--
Ahmed Mostafa
0123919750
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Software Engineer
IBM Egypt, Cairo Technology Development Center
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