Required user accounts for installation of DB2 Connect Personal Edition (Windows)

 

If you are installing DB2 Connect™ Personal Edition product on Windows®, you require an installation user account.

The installation user account is the account of the user performing the installation. The installation user account must be defined prior to running the DB2® Setup wizard. The setup user accounts can be defined prior to installation or you can have the DB2 Setup wizard create them for you.

All user account names must adhere to your system naming rules and to DB2 naming rules.

A local or domain user account is required to perform the installation. Normally, the user account must belong to the Administrators group on the computer where you will perform the installation.

Alternatively, a non-Administrator user account can be used. This alternative requires that a member of the Windows Administrators group first configure the Windows elevated privileges settings to allow a non-Administrator user account to perform an installation. For example, on a 64-bit operating system manually grant full permission on HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node before DB2 Connect Personal Edition can be successfully installed. On Windows Vista, a non-Administrator can perform an installation, but will be prompted for administrative credentials by the DB2 Setup wizard.

The user right "Access this computer from the network" is required for the installation user account.

For domain accounts, to verify user IDs, the installation user ID must belong to the Domain Administrators group on the domain where the accounts are going to be created.

You can also use the built-in Local System account to run the installation for all products.

User rights granted by the DB2 installer

The DB2 installation program does not grant the Debug Programs user right. The DB2 installer grants the following user rights:

Extended security on Windows

DB2 products offer extended Windows security. You can install DB2 Connect Personal Edition with a user ID, but unless that user ID belongs to either the DB2ADMNS or DB2USERS group, that user ID won't be able to run any DB2 commands.

The DB2 installer creates these two new groups. You can either specify a new name during a custom installation or accept the default names.

To enable this security feature, select the Enable operating system security check box on the Enable operating system security for DB2 objects panel during the DB2 installation. Accept the default values for the DB2 Administrators Group field, and the DB2 Users Group field. The default group names are DB2ADMNS and DB2USERS. If there is a conflict with existing group names, you will be prompted to change the group names. If required, you can specify your own values.

Parent topic: Installing DB2 Connect Personal Edition (Windows)

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User, user ID and group naming rules

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Setting up Windows elevated privileges prior to installing a DB2 product (Windows)