User IDs required to complete the Installation wizard
Prepare all of the user IDs required to complete your WebSphere Commerce installation.
User ID | Description | |
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Local Windows user ID | This ID is required to install WebSphere Commerce. This ID is also assigned to start the services for the following WebSphere Commerce components and supporting software during the installation:
Ensure that this user ID has the user rights that are documented in DB2 Database user ID requirements. If your Windows user ID does not have Administrator authority, is longer than 20 character, or is not defined on the local machine, you cannot proceed with the installation. Notes:
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DB2 database user ID | This operating system ID is required if you want WebSphere Commerce to install DB2 Database. This ID must not exist before you install DB2 Database through the WebSphere Commerce Installation wizard. As part of the installation of DB2 Database, the user ID under which all DB2 processes run is created. To create the DB2 user, the following information is
required:
Note: The user ID must meet DB2 Database user ID requirements that are outlined in DB2 Database user ID requirements. |
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Oracle database user ID | This operating system ID is required if you are using Oracle database with WebSphere Commerce. This ID is
the operating system user ID that owns the physical Oracle database files on the system. This ID must
exist before you installWebSphere Commerce. During the installation of WebSphere Commerce,
you are prompted for the following information about the Oracle database user ID:
Ensure that the Note:
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WebSphere Commerce non-root user ID | This operating system ID must exist before you install WebSphere Commerce. Ensure that you set the password for this user ID. Otherwise, someone can access the
operating system with this unprotected user ID. This ID prevents any security exposures that might occur from running the application servers as a user with root privileges. This ID is also required to start and stop the WebSphere Commerce application server.Note: You must start and
stop your application servers with this non-root user ID. However, you might be prompted to input
the WebSphere Application Server administrator ID and password to stop a WebSphere Application
Server profile. The WebSphere Application Server administrator ID associated with the WebSphere Commerce instance is the same as the Configuration Manager
ID. To create the non-root WebSphere Commerce user ID, the following information is
required:
Also, this information is required to complete
the WebSphere Commerce
Installation wizard. Note: During installation, the
non-root user and non-root user group must be local; using LDAP users and groups is not
supported. |
- Instructions for creating the WebSphere Commerce IDs for IBM i are provided in Creating a user profile.
DB2 Database user ID requirements
For installing WebSphere Commerce with a local database, all user IDs can be the same ID on the local machine.- The user ID cannot be more than 8 characters in length.
- The user ID cannot be more than 20 characters in length.
- The user ID can contain only the characters a to z and 0 to 9 (uppercase letters are not permitted).
- The user ID can contain only the characters A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9.
- The user ID cannot begin with an underscore (_).
- The user ID cannot be any of the following words, in upper, lower, or mixed case:
USERS
,ADMINS
,GUESTS
,PUBLIC
,LOCAL
. - The user ID cannot begin with any of the following words in upper, lower, or mixed case:
IBM
,SQL
,SYS
. - The user ID cannot be the same as any Windows® service name.
- The user ID must be defined on the local machine, and belong to the Local Administrator's group.
- The password cannot be more than 8 characters in length.
- The password cannot be more than 14 characters in length.
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