Werk #6957: mk_job: Allow monitoring of jobs of users without login shell

Component

Checks & agents

Title

mk_job: Allow monitoring of jobs of users without login shell

Date

Jan 17, 2019

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.6.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.5.0p12	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Previously, no shell was specified when changing the user ID to read the users job files. This made it impossible to monitor jobs of users without login shell, such as "www-data". The environment variable SHELL is now passed to su.

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