Authority to administer WebSphere MQ

Authority to administer WebSphere MQ

Overview

If you are a member of the mqm group, you are a WebSphere MQ administrator. Even the root user needs to be in the mqm group to perform MQ administration.
The mqm group is created automatically when WebSphere MQ is installed.
On UNIX platforms, a special user ID of mqm is also created, for use by the product only. It must never be available to non-privileged users. All WebSphere MQ objects are owned by user ID mqm.
You do not need to be a member of the mqm group to do the following:

Issue commands from an application program that issues PCF commands, or MQSC commands within an Escape PCF command, unless the commands manipulate channels.
Issue MQI calls from an application program (unless you want to use the fastpath bindings on the MQCONNX call).
Use the crtmqcvx command to create a fragment of code that performs data conversion on data type structures.
Use the dspmqtrc command to display WebSphere MQ formatted trace output.

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