Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Set up the application serving environment > Manage profiles on non-z/OS operating systems > Manage profiles for non-root users

Change ownership for profile maintenance

When an installer installs a maintenance package that contains service for a profile that a non-root user owns, the installer owns any new files that the maintenance package creates. The installer can change the ownership of the new files so that a non-root user can successfully start the product. This task assumes a basic familiarity with Installation Manager and system commands.

This task uses the following terms:

• Root users refers to:
  • (Solaris) (AIX) Root users
  • (Windows) Administrators

• Non-root users refers to:
  • (Solaris) (AIX) Non-root users
  • (Windows) Non-administrators

• Installer refers to a root user or a non-root user.

Before you can update a profile, install the product, and create a profile.

This example assumes that the installer completes the following actions:

• Applies service that creates new files in a profiles directory that the wsdemo non-root user owns
• Changes ownership of new profile files from the installer to the wsdemo non-root user.

If the installer does not change ownership, then when the non-root user starts the product, the application server encounters an error and issues a message that is similar to the following example:

ADMR0104E:
The system is unable to read document
cells/express1Cell/nodes/express1/node-metadata.properties:
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory 

Procedure

1. Install maintenance packages for the product.
2. Reassign ownership of the entire profile directory to the wsdemo non-root user.

   The PROFILE_ROOT variable in the following examples is the profile directory that the non-root user owns.

   (Solaris) (AIX) Issue the chown command.

   chown -R wsdemo PROFILE_ROOT
   

   (Windows) Follow instructions in the Windows documentation to reassign ownership of the PROFILE_ROOT directory to the wsdemo non-root user.

Results

The installer installed a maintenance package that creates new files in a non-root user profile directory and changes ownership of the new files to the non-root owner.

What to do next

The non-root user can start the product without receiving the ADMR0104E error message.

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