User IDs must be in the administrator group to start an installation

The DB2 Universal Database configuration can fail due to restrictions on the privileges of and the characters in the user ID.

The installation can fail under the following conditions.

• You install and configure DB2 Universal Database separately. The user ID is not in the administrator group.
• You use an ID containing reserved characters.

Install Security Identity Manager and prerequisite products with a user ID in the administrator group. We cannot use any of these administrator user IDs:

• USERS
• ADMINS
• GUESTS
• PUBLIC
• LOCAL

The user ID cannot begin with any of the following letters, either lowercase or uppercase:

• IBM
• SQL
• SYS

Parent topic: Troubleshooting installation and configuration problems