Starting a STAF PROCESS as another user correctly picks up that user's
environment variables for me. For example, on a Windows XP system I have
a user "staf" that I am using to start STAFProc, and a "test" user that
has 2 user environment variables defined, MYENV1 and MYENV2. If I start a
PROCESS specifying the USERNAME test, the output of the process ("set")
correctly shows the "test" user's environment variables:
C:\>STAF local PROCESS SET PROCESSAUTHMODE Windows
Response
--------
C:\>STAF local PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND set RETURNSTDOUT WAIT USERNAME
test P
ASSWORD mypassword
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 0
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data : ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data
CLASSPATH=C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\sample
s\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\S
TAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STA
F\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.
jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.ja
r;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\S
TAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\
JSTAF.jar;C:\STAF\samples\demo\STAFDemo.jar;C:\STAF\bin\JSTAF.jar
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=WINXP-VM
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\test
LOGONSERVER=\\WINXP-VM
MYENV1=value1
MYENV2=value2
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\
STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\STAF\bin;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Per
l\bin;C:\ibmjava142\jre\bin;C:\ibmjava142\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\
WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0f08
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SESSIONNAME=Console
STAFCONVDIR=C:\STAF\codepage
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\test\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\test\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=WINXP-VM
USERNAME=test
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\test
windir=C:\WINDOWS
}
]
}
Note that in order to get this to work, you need to follow the
instructions in the "Starting a Process Under a Different User on
Windows" STAF User's Guide section. Specifically you need to change the
Windows setting for the user under which STAFProc is started to allow it
to "Replace a process level token" and re-login as that user (and start
STAFProc again).
If this is still not working for you, please provide a detailed
reproduction scenario including the exact STAF commands you are executing.
David Bender
STAF/STAX Development
8-1268 (512-838-1268)
IBM Austin Bldg. 903-5B002
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Sandy Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/07/2008 10:15 PM
To
David Bender/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc
staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject
Re: [staf-users] start procee with different user on RH4 server
Actually I can run a process as a different user on windows. I just don't
know how to load user env vars by staf automatically.
Currently I am in a project that provide a unitive interface for many
users to run their test on a distributed enviroment. The ability to run
test on remote machines is provide by STAF. Because many tests depend on
special enviroment, we create some different users on all machine and set
up enviroment. Follow your kind help, I have been able to start a process
under a specific user with associated enviroment variables on linux, but
now I am feazed by how to do it on windows.
Best regards,
Homer
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:01 PM, David Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Windows, running a process as a different user should set the
environment variables for the user. Have you followed the instructions
in http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAFUG.htm#HDRWINUSER "Starting a
Process Under a Different User on Windows"?
The ":3:env" is a length delimited format that is of the form
:<Length>:<String>, and is documented here:
http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAFUG.htm#HDROVFORM "7.2 Option Value
Formats".
David Bender
STAF/STAX Development
8-1268 (512-838-1268)
IBM Austin Bldg. 903-5B002
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Sandy Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/06/2008 10:34 PM
To
Sharon Lucas/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc
staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject
Re: [staf-users] start procee with different user on RH4 server
Thank you all very much!
Now I can run shell command as another user with associated env vars
successfully. But I still have two more question,
1, How can I run shell command as another user with associated env vars on
Windows XP SP3? I have run comand as another user successful. But
associated env vars didn't loaded automatically. Is there any way to
resolve this problem?
2, In this command "STAF local PROCESS START SHELL "su - %u -c %C"
COMMAND :3:env RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT USERNAME staf", what is
":3:env" mean? I can't find anything useful about this term.
Best regards,
Homer
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Sharon Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can use the ENV option on a PROCESS start request to set environment
variables like PATH and CLASSPATH (or perhaps run a shell script that sets
the enviroment variables in conjunction with whatever command your
process is starting. There is an open bug to investigate how STAF can
automatically set environment variables for a particular user on Unix. See
Bug #1334433 at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1334433&group_id=33142&atid=407381
for a possible workaround using "su" in the shell to run the process as a
different user. For example, to run a process as another user and have
the environment variables for this user, try specifying:
SHELL "su - %u -c %C"
For example, with STAFProc started as root, you can run a process as a
user "user1" and use it's environment variables as shown by running the
env command to show the environment variables used by the process:
STAF local PROCESS START SHELL "su - %u -c %C" COMMAND env RETURNSTDOUT
STDERRTOSTDOUT USERNAME user1
--------------------------------------------------------------
Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(512) 838-8347 or Tieline 678-8347
"Sandy Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/06/2008 04:47 AM
To
staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
cc
Subject
Re: [staf-users] start procee with different user on RH4 server
Hi,
I follow your suggestion and try again, and make it successful to run
shell command with another user. The reason why I failed last time is that
I didn't start staf with root user. Thank you very much!
But how about my second question? I want to run shell command with a
different user and its enviroment. For all enviroment variables associated
with the new user will not be loaded automatically. But my shell command
depends on enviroment variables such as PATH, CLASSPATH and so on. Is
there any way to make staf load enviroment variables automatically?
Best regards,
Homer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Javier Collado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello,
Maybe the problem is that the ability to launch a process with a
different user is disabled by default. However, you may change
PROCESSAUTHMODE variable in your STAF.cfg configuration file to enable
it. From the user's guide SET PROCESSAUTHMODE <value>:
<<
* DISABLED - This indicates that the user may not specify a
username/password with which to authenticate when starting a process.
This mode is available on all platforms. This is default mode.
* WINDOWS - This indicates that windows-based authentication
should be used. This mode is only available on Windows systems. See
"Starting a Process Under a Different User on Windows" for more
information.
* NONE - This indicates that usernames will be honored but not
authenticated. In this mode, passwords are ignored and processes are
started under the indicated username. This mode is only available on
Unix systems.
>>
Best regards,
Javier
2008/9/28 Sandy Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, guys:
>
> I want to use process service to start a shell command with another user
> rather than current user,. Follow <STAF V3 User's Guide>, I think that
such
> a command may do that:
>
> staf local process start shell command whoami username yl password
123456
> wait returnstdout returnstderr
>
> But it failed when execute this command. Below is error message:
>
> Error during process authentication for user name yl
>
> Somebody could tell me why?
>
> I also get an infomation from
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00219.html
> that even this command executes succcessed, all enviroment variables
> associated with the new user will not be loaded automatically. But my
shell
> command depends on enviroment variables such as PATH and other. Is there
any
> way to make staf load enviroment variables automatically?
>
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