Creating a profile as an installer and assigning ownership to a non-root user
The installer can create a profile and assign ownership of the profile directory to a non-root user so that the non-root user can start WAS for a specific profile. Use this example to accomplish the tasks through commands. This task assumes a basic familiarity with the manageprofiles command and system commands.This task uses the following terms:
- Root users refers to:
- Root users
Administrators
- Non-root users refers to
- Non-root users
Non-administrators
- Installer refers to a root user or a non-root user.
Before you can create a profile, install WAS.
Overview
Have the installer perform the following steps to create a profile and assign ownership for the profile directory and the logs directory. The ownership is assigned to a non-root user ID that is different from the installer ID. The non-root user needs access to these directories to start WAS.
Procedure
- Create the profile:
./manageprofiles.sh -create -profileName profile01 -profilePath
app_server_root/profiles/profile01 -templatePath
app_server_root/profileTemplates/default
manageprofiles -create -profileName profile01 -profilePath C:\The commands are split on multiple lines for printing purposes.
app_server_root\profiles\profile01 -templatePath C:\
app_server_root\profileTemplates\default
- Change ownership of the profile01 profile directory to the user1 non-root user: For example, issue the following command:
chown -R user1 app_server_root/profiles/profile01Follow instructions in the Windows documentation to grant user1 access to the following directory:
C:\app_server_root\profiles\profile01
- Change the ownership of the logs directory for the profile01 profile to the user1 non-root user to prevent displaying log messages to the console: Issue the following command:
chown -R user1 app_server_root/logs/manageprofiles/profile01Follow instructions in the Windows documentation to grant user1 access to the following directory:
C:\app_server_root\logs\manageprofiles\profile01
Results
The installer has created a profile and changed ownership of the profile directory and log directory to a non-root user.
What to do next
The non-root user can start WAS associated with, in this example, profile01.
manageprofiles command