Users and groups for application servers on Linux® that use Db2 databases

Applies to: On premises

To install the Db2® database client and the IBM OpenPages® application, you must create one user and one group.

To install the Db2 database client, create and configure the required user and group as specified in the following table.

Table 1. Required user and group for application servers
User Assign to Groups Permissions Reason
db2user

The group is assigned during the installation of the Db2 client.

Read, write, execute permission to the Db2 client installation directory.

Required by the Db2 database client installation program.
opuser

Read, write, execute permission to the following directories:

  • Db2 database client installation directory.
  • Java™ SDK installation directory.
  • IBM® Cognos® Analytics installation directory.

The user account that installs OpenPages.