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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 Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.5.0p12 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

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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