Very good question, curious myself Could it be run as user "nobody"?
Bryan On May 14, 2012 9:42 PM, "Mark Creamer" <white...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a bit of best practice advice. On Windows systems I > usually create a job runner account with the correct permissions to > run batch scripts when they need to be scheduled, so the jobs aren't > tied to specific users whose passwords will change. > > So in OI, I have a similar need, to run a job nightly that will pull > data from a neighboring server using a scp command run in a cron job. > My thought is to create a user account and set up passwordless scp to > facilitate scripting the scp task. Would it then be best to run the > job in root's cron? Or from the shell of the user running the scp? > > Thanks for any advice. > > -- > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
