Rundeck - run job on localhost as different user

Question

I'm quite new to Rundeck and is evaluating it as alternate to Jenkins to run our adhoc operational tasks.

We have all commands & scripts on the Rundeck server that needs to be run as specific user, eg.: ubuntu.

I tried change configurations at some places like /etc/rundeck/framework.properties ( framework.ssh.user=ubuntu ) and /var/rundeck/projects/myproject/etc/resources.xml (set username="ubuntu" for localhost node) but my job anyway always run as user 'rundeck', that's quite frustrating as at first I thought it should be simple to achieve that.

So, am I missing something or Rundeck cannot run script locally as different user to 'rundeck'?

UPDATE : I found one solution for now, that's to use the Script step then in the advance option Invocation String I can set like "sudo -u ubuntu" to that so my script runs as ubuntu from rundeck.

However it's still not really convenient for using that sudo, for example environment variables preserving issue.

Answer 1

@Arcobaleno you will have to dispatch to the rundeck server to use the ssh setup. The "Local Command" or a Command step not dispatched uses the Local Node Executor which is a plugin point. You could create a Local Node executor to implicitly sudo to the user you want and run the command.

Answer 2

You need to ssh from you localhost to your localhost(pretend localhost as a remote server).

ie

[ubuntu]$ ssh ubuntu@xx.xx with passwordless ssh. 

Copy id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys . (The id_ras.pub is stored in the default place /var/lib/rundeck/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. ).

Then you can run your program using your ubuntu env.

This works for me.