Which user do Linux scripts run as

[steelnwool]

Topic says it all, do linux scripts run as the root user, or as the user that ssh'd in ?

[Dima P.]

Jeff,
root should work.

[alanbolte]

Are you asking how to set the account for prefreeze/post-thaw scripts? The job will either use the account specified in the main guest processing page of the job settings, or the credentials you set for specific VMs after clicking the "Credentials..." button.

[Vitaliy S.]

You can enable native VMware Tools quiescence to execute these pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts as well. Here is a bit more more information about this.

[steelnwool]

Well, I have it as a non root account that gets elevated via sudo. Which means it logs in as a user name veeam, and then sudos to root.

The part I'm not sure of is if it for pre/post scripts if it gets sudo'd or if it tries to run as vim. I'll just write a script to spit out the effective UID/GID to see what is up.

@Vitaliy S. - Thanks!.

[steelnwool]

The answer is root

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#!/bin/bash

echo uid is $UID >> /tmp/uid
echo euid is $EUID >> /tmp/uid

exit 0

ssh over to the VM and....

ls -l /tmp/uid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Jul 16 09:44 /tmp/uid

cat /tmp/uid
uid is 0
euid is 0

Mind you, the job is still failing with "timed out waiting for script to finish execution" but I'll start another thread on that