Windows Nt User Accounts For The Server - Sun Microsystems iPlanet Web Server Installation Manual

In addition, the user account you create for the server should belong to a group
that contains the server users for all iPlanet servers so that multiple servers can
have access to shared files.
If you don't create a dedicated user account for iPlanet Web Server, on many
platforms you can use the account with the name
to give the user
nobody
addition, the user
nobody
user ID of -2 for the user
installation. Check the
make sure it is greater than 0.
NOTE It's strongly recommended that you use a dedicated account for the
server.
The Administration Server can also run with a user account that has write
permissions to the configuration files for all installed servers. However, it's much
easier to run the Administration Server as
Server user can start and stop servers with port numbers less than 1024. (Port
numbers greater than 1024 can be started by any user).
The user you use to run the iPlanet Web Server (often
group as the user you use to run the Administration Server (often
If you plan to use SNMP, you must run both the iPlanet Web Server
CAUTION
instance and the Administration Server as

Windows NT User Accounts for the Server

You should create a Windows NT user account for your iPlanet Web Server. It
should have restricted access to your system resources and run under a
nonprivileged system user account (one that has a limited set of system
permissions to your system). When the server starts, it runs with this user account.
Any server extension modules the server uses are created with this user account as
the owner.
permissions for running the iPlanet Web Server. In
might not work on some systems. Some systems assign a
. A user ID of less than 0 generates an error during
nobody
file to see if the
/etc/passwd
root
Chapter 1 Before You Install iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition
Other Technical Requirements
, but you might not want
nobody
for exists, and
uid nobody
because then the Administration
) must be in the same
nobody
root
.
root
).
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