running job as non-agent user

I'm having trouble connecting to Unix as a second user. I've installed the Java
Scheduler as "user_a", and am running the agent as that user. The same user owns
many programs that I am using the scheduler to run. However, there are a number
of programs owned by a second user, "user_b". When I try to run a job as user_b,
it always fails. I created a test job that touches a file. When I run as user_a
it works fine. As user_b it fails. I can test the agent connection with both
users successfully. The job fails whether I run the master from either Windows
or the Unix box. Both user_a and user_b are in the same Unix group, and I have
even set all the file rights in the scheduler to "777". I am not using "PAM",
though. Is that a requirement for using other users?

To be able to run processes as multiple users you need to start agent as root. Only root has sufficient permissions for that.

Alternatively you can run 2 agent instances 1 for each user started under different user accounts and configure them to use different port numbers.
You can then setup 2 different connection profiles in the scheduler and point each provide to the right agent/port.

: I'm having trouble connecting to Unix as a second user. I've installed the
: Java
: Scheduler as "user_a", and am running the agent as that user. The
: same user owns
: many programs that I am using the scheduler to run. However, there are a
: number
: of programs owned by a second user, "user_b". When I try to run a
: job as user_b,
: it always fails. I created a test job that touches a file. When I run as
: user_a
: it works fine. As user_b it fails. I can test the agent connection with both
: users successfully. The job fails whether I run the master from either
: Windows
: or the Unix box. Both user_a and user_b are in the same Unix group, and I
: have
: even set all the file rights in the scheduler to "777". I am not
: using "PAM",
: though. Is that a requirement for using other users?

How do I configure them to use different ports without the GUI? Is there a
command-line option to specify the port?

: To be able to run processes as multiple users you need to start agent as
: root. Only root has sufficient permissions for that.

: Alternatively you can run 2 agent instances 1 for each user started under
: different user accounts and configure them to use different port numbers.
: You can then setup 2 different connection profiles in the scheduler and point
: each provide to the right agent/port.

Edit preferences.xml in vi or other text editor and modify "port" and "remotePort" parameters as desired. Anything which is not used by other programs should be good. To verify what is in use, you can run run netstat -a

Hope this helps

: How do I configure them to use different ports without the GUI? Is there a
: command-line option to specify the port?