Accessing and securing your key database files on Windows

The key database files might not have appropriate access permissions. We must set appropriate access to these files.

Set access control to the files key.kdb, key.sth, key.crl, and key.rdb, where key is the stem name of our key database, to grant authority to a restricted set of users.

full authority

BUILTIN\Administrators, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, and the user who created the database files.

read authority

For a queue manager, the local mqm group only. This assumes that the MCA is running under a user ID in the mqm group.

For a client, the user ID under which the client process is running.

Parent topic: Set up a key repository on UNIX, Linux, and Windows