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# Using Run-As

To use Run-As, you must do three things: set up Engines, add credentials, and associate credentials with Service Types.

## Engine Setup

For information about how to set up Engines for Service run-as, see “Configuring Run-As for Windows Engines” and “Configuring Run-As for UNIX Engines” in the GridServer Installation Guide.

## Managing Credentials

The Credentials DB is a store of RA credentials on the Director and Brokers used for RA services. It is maintained on the Director and synchronized with Brokers.

The Run-As Credentials page in the Administration Tool lets you create, edit, and delete RA credentials.

To add new Credentials to your Manager:

Procedure

| 1. | In the Administration Tool, go to Admin > User Admin > Run-As Credentials.

| 2. | Enter the name of a credential, a password, and then enter the same password again.

| 3. | Click Add.

## Managing Run-As in Service Types

The Service Type Registry entries allow specification of an RA user name for use with that Service. To specify a Run-As user for a Service Type:

Procedure

| 1. | In the GridServer Administration Tool, go to Services > Services > Service Types.

| 2. | Select an existing Service Type, click to the Actions control, and select Edit Service Type. This opens the Service Type Editor window.

| 3. | In the Service Type Editor window, under the ContainerBinding header, enter the user name in RunAsUser.

Note that in this field, you can use `$` to indicate the Driver’s current user. Leaving this value blank (the default) indicates that the process runs as the same user running the Engine Daemon.

If you are adding a user name that contains unicode characters, you must change to the correct code page to match the user name.

The Specify Additional RunAs User permission is needed to specify a user other than the Driver or Engine Daemon process.

It is also possible to specify a Windows domain in the RunAsUser field. For example, if you are using a UNIX Driver (which is not in a Windows domain) and you want to run Services on Windows Engines using a specific user and domain, you can specify this in the form `domain/username`. The forward slash translates to a backslash. For example, specifying `DATASYNAPSE/BILL` runs Services as the user `BILL` in the `DATASYNAPSE` Windows domain (`DATASYNAPSE\BILL`).

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