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Execute job question

Leon Yak

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January 28, 2004 at 12:33 pm

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Hi,
How can I grant rights to execute only one job that is owned by 'sa' to another login without giving that account rights as sysadmin.
The job uses CmdExe in the one of the steps.
And the error message is:
"Non-SysAdmins have been denied permission to run CmdExec job steps."
Thank you

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Allen Cui-55137 SSC Guru Points: 51650 More actions · Answer 1

You need configure SQL Server Agent proxy account from Agent property.

Leon Yak SSC Journeyman Points: 77 More actions · Answer 2

User will start job from the batch, so I would like go allow him to execute only ONE particular job.

Can it be done?

Thank you

Nicholas Cain SSC-Dedicated Points: 33009 More actions · Answer 3

I would create a stored proc that will execute the job grant the appropriate permissions to execute the proc to the user and whenever the user wants to execute the job he can just run the proc.

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Leon Yak SSC Journeyman Points: 77 More actions · Answer 4

Thank you.

That what I gona do.

But would it make sence to have a job level permission?

Leon

Nicholas Cain SSC-Dedicated Points: 33009 More actions · Answer 5

Job level permissions are created by restricting access to the procedure which will execute the job.

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Leon Yak SSC Journeyman Points: 77 More actions · Answer 6

You are right.

But, I have in the job with a few dependant steps, executing T-SQL and CmdExe commands..

Of course, everything could be done in store proc, but it seemce easier to do it as a job steps.

regards,

Leon

Nicholas Cain SSC-Dedicated Points: 33009 More actions · Answer 7

Sorry I'm not clarifying this right.

You can create a stored proc that simply is an sp_start_job for the job that you want to execute. Granting the permissions for that user to the proc should allow the user to start the job provided that you have set up the SQL Agent proxy account.

This means you only have to give the user access to the proc and not all of the jobs.

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 8

I'm using alerts to perform these kind of task.

- Cmdshell stays closed.

- dba has control on jobs running on db-servers

- alertno-ranges support portability (DRP)

Test this :

print @@servername

USE Master

go

Declare @MessageNummer int

Declare @JobName varchar(128)

Declare @DbName varchar(128)

set @MessageNummer = 60010 -- <-- adjust!!!

set @JobName = 'myjob' -- <-- adjust!!!

set @DbName = 'MyDb' -- <-- adjust!!!

--

-- dedicated ranges

-- 60000 - 60009 server1 - userdb

-- 60010 - 60499 server2 - Mydb

-- 61000 - 61499 Server4 - pubs

Declare @wrkstr1 varchar(128)

Declare @wrkstr2 varchar(128)

set @wrkstr1 = 'MYCOMPANY Requesting Job ' + @JobName + ' to be launched.'

-- add message

exec sp_addmessage @msgnum = @MessageNummer

, @severity = 10

, @msgtext = @wrkstr1

-- , @lang = 'language'

, @with_log = 'true'

-- , @replace = 'replace'

--go

set @wrkstr1 = 'MYCOMPANY_Requesting_Job_' + @JobName

set @wrkstr2 = 'Requesting Job ' + @JobName + ' to be launched.'

-- define Alert in MSDB

exec msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name = @wrkstr1

, @message_id = @MessageNummer

, @severity = 0

, @enabled = 1 -- 0 = disabled / 1 = enabled

, @delay_between_responses = 5 -- Seconds

, @notification_message = @wrkstr2

--, @include_event_description_in = 0

, @database_name = @DbName

--, @event_description_keyword ='Requesting Job ' + @JobName + ' to be launched.'

, @job_name = @JobName

-- , @raise_snmp_trap = raise_snmp_trap] niet in SQL 7.0

-- , @performance_condition = 'performance_condition'

--, @category_name = 'Application Events'

exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_alert

go

use MyDb

go

RAISERROR ( 60010 , 10 , 1 ) WITH log

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Nicholas Cain SSC-Dedicated Points: 33009 More actions · Answer 9

Oh that is more cunning than cunning. I like it.

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Leon Yak SSC Journeyman Points: 77 More actions · Answer 10

Thank you everybody,

Using the alerts to start job - is nice and elegant solution to allow the user to execute job using rights, he realy does not have.

Great! Thank you.