Correcting file ownership or permission problems with IBM® Installation Manager

If you accidentally start an Installation Manager instance from the wrong user ID, some files might end up with ownerships that prevent normal use of the Installation Manager.

Procedure

To correct this problem, log on to a super user or other privileged user ID and reset the file ownership and permissions for the Installation Manager binary files and agent data. For example:

chown IMADMIN:IMGROUP /InstallationManager/bin

chmod 775 /InstallationManager/bin

and

chown IMADMIN:IMGROUP /InstallationManager/appdata

chmod 775 /InstallationManager/appdata

If the users of a group-mode Installation Manager do not have umask set to allow group-write permission on created files, you might also have to set the permissions and owners when switching from one user ID to another. You might also need to set permissions and owners for the product files that you install with the Installation Manager to ensure that maintenance can be performed from other user IDs in the group.