Service Account

[woodRock]

Goal

We need a dedicated service account, say nzodn_admin or robot to perform the cron job.

Tasklist

• Privileges to add cron jobs to root
• Sevice account nzodn_admin
• relevant permissions to access directories
• Privileges to sudo into this account

Success Criteria

There is a service account, that can run cron jobs, with permissions to the directories it needs. The cron jobs are scheduled on the root user, to use this service account.

[woodRock]

We run all the cron jobs on root. This is for book keeping. It helps us keep track of all the different cron jobs on a sever, without having to individually view each user account. We have access to the robot service account, and our cron jobs can be run as that user. However, it is best practice for these jobs to be added to the root users crontab.