Running jobs as user with nologin

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

What are the requirements for running a job in a Linux or UNIX agent when the user has nologin specified (no password)?

Environment

Release: 12.3, 21.0

Resolution

The following requirements must be met in order for this to work:

• OS requirements:
  • The nologin user must have a home directory
• Agent requirements:
  • The agent must be at 12.3.9 HF1 if on 12.3.9, and 21.0.4 HF1 or higher if on 21.0.
  • The agent binary must still be owned by root and have 4755 for permissions
  • allow_nologin_shell must be set to Y in the agent's ini file
  • login_check must be set to no in the agent's ini file
• Automic system requirements:
  • ANONYMOUS_JOB must be set to "Y" in the agent's UC_HOSTCHAR_* variable in client 0
• The following must be chosen for the shell on the job's UNIX page:
  Bourne-Again-Shell; non-login shell (bash)