Creating group and user IDs for a Db2 database installation (Linux and UNIX)

The Db2 Setup wizard creates these users and groups for you during the installation process. If you want, you can create them ahead of time.

Before you begin

To complete this task, you must have root user authority to create users and groups.

About this task

Three users and groups are required.

The user and group names that are used in the following instructions are documented in the following table. You can specify your own user and group names if they adhere to system naming rules and Db2 naming rules.

The user IDs you create are required to complete subsequent setup tasks.

Table 1. Default users and groups
User Example user name Example group name
Instance owner db2inst1 db2iadm1
Fenced user db2fenc1 db2fsdm1
Db2 administration server user dasusr1 dasadm1
  • The instance owner home directory is where the Db2 instance is created.
  • The fenced user is used to run user-defined functions (UDFs) and stored procedures outside of the address space that is used by the Db2 database.
  • The user ID for the Db2 administration server user is used to run the Db2 administration server on your system.

Procedure

To create the required groups and user IDs for Db2 database systems:

  1. Log in as a user with root user authority.
  2. Enter the appropriate commands for your operating system.
    Note: These command line examples do not contain passwords. They are examples only. You can use the passwd username command from the command line to set the password.
    AIX® operating systems
    To create groups on AIX, enter the following commands: 
       mkgroup id=999 db2iadm1
   mkgroup id=998 db2fsdm1
   mkgroup id=997 dasadm1
    Create users for each group: 
       mkuser id=1004 pgrp=db2iadm1 groups=db2iadm1 
      home=/home/db2inst1 db2inst1 
   mkuser id=1003 pgrp=db2fsdm1 groups=db2fsdm1 
      home=/home/db2fenc1 db2fenc1 
   mkuser id=1002 pgrp=dasadm1 groups=dasadm1 
      home=/home/dasusr1 dasusr1
    Set initial password:
       passwd db2inst1
   passwd db2fenc1
   passwd dasusr1
    Linux® operating systems
    To create groups on Linux operating systems, enter the following commands: 
       groupadd -g 999 db2iadm1
   groupadd -g 998 db2fsdm1
   groupadd -g 997 dasadm1
    Create users for each group: 
    useradd -u 1004 -g db2iadm1 -m -d /home/db2inst1 db2inst1 
useradd -u 1003 -g db2fsdm1 -m -d /home/db2fenc1 db2fenc1 
useradd -u 1002 -g dasadm1 -m -d /home/dasusr1 dasusr1
    Set initial password:
       passwd db2inst1
   passwd db2fenc1
   passwd dasusr1