JOC Cockpit REST API provides an environment variable that indicates the user who starts a job or job chain

Feature

• Users want to run a job e.g. in a Unix environment for a specific user account, see link to SourceForge.
  • This can be achieved e.g. by using:

    sudo su - <account>

  • Please note that sudoers must be configured to use su - without password.
• The user account for the task run should be used from the user account in JOC Cockpit who caused the task start.

Implementation

• The JOC Cockpit REST Web Service should automatically create an order/task parameter SCHEDULER_JOC_USER_ACCOUNT with the value of the JOC Cockpit user account who caused the order/task start.
• If an order/task start is performed by the web service then an existing parameter with the same name will be overwritten .
• If an order/task start is performed without web service interaction then this parameter will not be set. Should this parameter exist from the order/task then it will not be modified.
• For Unix environments this should allow to configure shell jobs e.g. like this:

  sudo su - $SCHEDULER_PARAM_SCHEDULER_JOC_USER_ACCOUNT

• For Windows environments see JS-1771