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Appendix C. Creating users on AIX

This appendix provides instructions for creating users and groups on AIX.

Three users and groups are required to operate DB2. The user and group names

used in the following instructions are documented in Table C-1.

Table C-1 Required user and groups

There are some limitations for the DB2 user name and group name:

򐂰 User names on Unix can contain 1 to 8 characters.

򐂰 Group and instance names can contain 1 to 8 characters.

򐂰 Names cannot be any of the following:

– users

– admins

– guests

– public

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Required User User name Group name

Instance Owner db2inst1 db2iadm1

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