Setting up a new non-root user for WebSphere Application Server (Linux, UNIX)
If you have IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server installed, you can create a user who can manage WebSphere® Application Server processes. These steps need to be completed only once.
Before you begin
Make sure to read the restrictions in Configuring WebSphere Application Server for non-root administration (Linux, UNIX).
About this task
The general purpose in these instructions is to transfer the ownership of some of the files under WebSphere Application Server and InfoSphere Information Server to the new non-root user, at which point the new user would be able to take over the management of the WebSphere Application Server process. This one-time setup task describes the steps for creating the user. The post installation instructions describe the steps that must be performed after you install any add-on components to the services tier or if any of the application servers were restarted as the root user and you want them to be started again as the non-root user.
These steps use wasadmin as the new non-root user. However, this is just an example user name; you can use any user name that you want, or use an existing user.
To complete this task, you must be a system administrator with root access.