Re: [Condor-users] Submitting DAGs as a different user

[Ben Burnett <burnett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Szabolcs:

You may be able to use the Windows Scripting Host to do what you want:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=2760

Using the script (or a derivative) outlined in the article 
above, you can create a batch file that submits all the DAG
jobs as the desired users.  Keep in mind that you may be 
exposing the users' passwords.
 
Regards,
-B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Horvátth Szabolcs
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:14 AM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Submitting DAGs as a different user
> 
> 
> > You could submit from Linux:
> >
> > sudo -u <username> dag_submit ...
> >
> > But target Windows. From Windows you could use runas and maybe the
> > credentials can be cached for runas (I haven't used it in a while and
> > don't have a Windows machine here right now to check credential
> caching
> > against). But it requires a human to type the password at least once.
> >
> Sadly I'd like to get it working on windows. Runas' password can not be
> set from the command line, so its out of the question.
> I tried using similar utilities but with no luck (had strange problems
> with environment variables) and thought that a native condor solution
> would be the cleanest solution if there is any.
> 
> Cheers,
> Szabolcs