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• Use Agent instances

  • Multiple Agents can be operated to run in different accounts from the same Agent installation

  • For details see JobScheduler Universal Agent - Running multiple instances

• Use sudo in the JobScheduler job

  • To access a file belonging to "other_user" use
    sudo -u other_user script_for_other_user.sh 

  • Make sure that other_user doesn't require a password for sudo. This can be achieved by adjusting the configuration from the sudoers file. This method has the advantage that it is extremely flexible - you can change the user more than once within a job. if sudo requires a password then you can use 
    echo "<password>" | sudo -S -u other_user script_for_other_user.sh

• Use SSH jobs
  • The

• If it is not possible to use sudo or if all the files you are accessing have the same owner you can either use SSH or a JobScheduler Agent.

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  • JITL Jobs
  • How to execute Jobs and Orders with Remote JobScheduler Instances?
  • The second answer to Run Jobs as a Specific UserID
• Note that the
  • use of SSH is not restricted to remote computers - you can use it to access local files.
   
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  • A JITL SSH job is provided with
  every
  • each JobScheduler installation. See the following articles:
    • JITL Jobs
    • How to execute Jobs and Orders with Remote JobScheduler Instances?
    • The second answer to Run Jobs as a Specific UserID