On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:42 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?
I would imagine that you should be running any script with the minimum permissions needed for it to function. If all you need to do is copy files from a remote server to the local filesystem, you should be able to do that with a regular user account. I would only run such a script as the root if I anticipate problems with permissions (eg. other users making conflicting changes to the target folder and I need to overwrite them). On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Iotti <ironsides.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very good question, curious myself > > Could it be run as user "nobody"? The user could be called "mybackup" with the shell set to "/bin/false", if you want to prevent logon as that user. Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
