Who should this CGI task run as?

dazzlad

All,

Am trying to track down an issue in a CGI.

To be clear, who would you expect this task to run as 'iw_user' or the TeamSite UI user.

Do you need to use the TeamSite CGI wrapper in order that a CGI task will run as 'iw_user'.

At present getlogin() within the CGI script returns an empty string.

<cgitask name="My Task"
      owner="__TAG__('iw_user');"
      description="My Task"
      immediate="t"
      start="t"
      lock="f">
    <areavpath v="__TAG__('iw_workarea');"/>
    <successors>
      <successorset description="One">
        <succ v="end"/>
      </successorset>
      <successorset description="Two">
        <succ v="end"/>
      </successorset>      
    </successors>
    <command v='__INSERT__("/iw-bin/path/to/my.cgi");' />
</cgitask>

Many Thanks.

ISCBorisB

All, Am trying to track down an issue in a CGI. To be clear, who would you expect this task to run as 'iw_user' or the TeamSite UI user. Do you need to use the TeamSite CGI wrapper in order that a CGI task will run as 'iw_user'. At present getlogin() within the CGI script returns an empty string. <cgitask name="My Task" owner="__TAG__('iw_user');" description="My Task" immediate="t" start="t" lock="f"> <areavpath v="__TAG__('iw_workarea');"/> <successors> <successorset description="One"> <succ v="end"/> </successorset> <successorset description="Two"> <succ v="end"/> </successorset> </successors> <command v='__INSERT__("/iw-bin/path/to/my.cgi");' /> </cgitask> Many Thanks.

The way the task is currently set up, Task Owner is the person that instantiated the Workflow.
Whether that's what you want is another story.

For the wft CGI Tasks TS Workflow Engine automatically uses iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi on your behalf. Matter of fact, you (WF Developer)
can not code cgitask URLs, you should use CGI file Path instead. iw_cgi_wrapper impersonates task Owner so that CGI
process is owned by that user. Makes sense?