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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 22, 2023

TWS user id is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4

TWS userID on zCentric agents is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4, but it works fine on NFS v3. There is a restriction for "setuid" on NFS v4, so TWS agent if installed on NFS v4 is able to the run jobs only as TWS user. Jobs with other users are failing with error - "AWSITA378E This agent was installed with a user that does not have the required permissions to impersonate the job user."." This is impacting NFS migration and soon will become outage as NFS v3 is nearing it's end of life. Please provide a workaround as soon as possible.

Idea priority Urgent