Re: Running Utilities as another user.

Posted in 1997

Michael J. Erickson — Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:50:07 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5uk009$1ve@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, viegasjp@panasonic.com says... > > We are trying to implement Maestro, which is a scheduling package which > is supposed to run all of our batch, scripts, etc.. We currently have it > running our backups through onarchive, but our next step is to be able to > run onchecks and update statistics through the tool. I believe to be > able to run these commands, the user has to be INFORMIX, but if some one > has a way around this, so that another user can run them, I would > appreciate their input. > One way which I don't want to implement is to " su - informix" then > provide the password, this would mean having the password hardcoded, and > against our policy. > > Thanks in advance > JP > > Maestro can run any script as any user and does not require the password. Michael J. Erickson