Setting up ccm_root and informix users and groups

About this task

User ccm_root and user informix are the two administrative users. User ccm_root owns most of the files and directories, and is the user with permissions to run the administrative commands for Rational Synergy. User informix is used by the Informix software to perform administrative tasks governing the database server activities. You must have these users and groups defined to install Rational Synergy.

Note: If you are not using NIS, set up ccm_root and informix users and groups on each engine host. Use the same numeric user and group IDs on every machine.

Place the ccm_root and informix home directories wherever appropriate for your site.

Note: Do not install the software into the ccm_root home directory.

Perform the user and group setup as user root.

Procedure

  1. Create the ccm_root and informix users.
  2. Create the ccm_root and informix groups.

    Make ccm_root a member of group ccm_root, and user informix a member of group informix. Group informix must be the primary group for the user informix.

    To the ccm_root group, add the names of any users who have the build_mgr (build manager) role.

  3. If you are running Rational Synergy on a Linux platform, link
    /etc/logingroup to the /etc/group file.
  4. Create ccm_root and informix home directories. Write the value for ccm_root_home in item 3, and write the value of informix_home in item 4, on the worksheet.
    Note: Be sure that the informix_home home directory is not the same as the informix_chunkfiles directory.

Results

The following examples include /users/ccm_root and /users/informix:

   root# mkdir /users/ccm_root
   root# chown ccm_root /users/ccm_root
   root# chgrp ccm_root /users/ccm_root
   root# chmod 755 /users/ccm_root
   root# mkdir /users/informix
   root# chown informix /users/informix
   root# chgrp informix /users/informix
   root# chmod 755 /users/informix

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