User Ownership of Applications

The installation program prompts you to select a user and group to own the application that you are installing. If you want to configure the applications to communicate using SSH, install the Master Server, Local Distributors, and Remote Agents as the same user.

The root user cannot own the Master Server. You can install the Master Server as the user that owns the Master Server or you can install the application as root and, when you are prompted, specify which user owns the Master Server .

If you are installing the Master Server or the CLI Client on a Solaris server, you must login as root.

If you want the Remote Agent to have root privileges on the machine where it is running, then you must run the installation program as the root user. Even though you may specify a user other than root to own the Remote Agent, if you want the Remote Agent to have root privileges on the machine where it is running, start the installation program as the root user.