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Installed DS 7.0 on solaris 8 as root with dsdadm as the admin user. DS runs fine as root, but prompts for PW when I try to start as dsdadm. I've tried the dsdadm PW, and do not have the root PW. Error says:

/Ascential/BWD/Ascential/DataStage/DSEngine/sample/ds.rc: /Ascential/BWD/Ascential/DataStage/DSEngine/.DBsetup.log: cannot create

I previously had DS installed on this box and removed all dshome and /tmp before fresh install. umask set to 22, dsdadm user looks ok. I'm stumped.

I noticed there are no dstmp.date files in dshome as I have on an install that is working.

Thanks,
Bill

If you're trying to use dsdadm as the administrative user, you will need to enable impersonation mode. Read up on this in the installation guide.
Otherwise, try using dsadm as the user ID. But, even then, you should properly have installed as dsadm.

Hi

We had a similar problem a little while ago, and if i remember correctly we just pressed the enter key when asked for the password.

Thanks for your replies. I believe the prompt was for the root user's password. I installed with the -admin <admin user> parameter, so my dsdadm user was already set up, and

$DSHOME/bin/uv -info

shows impersonation enabled.

Turns out the problem was the way my unix admin mounted the Ascential file system. To lock down set UID, he included "nosuid" in the the mount command. You can view the mounted status with;

% mount -v

Thanks for the replies.
Bill

Thanks for that feedback. I've not encountered anyone using a NOSUID mount in the past, because I always explain that the DataStage software requires the capability to use setuid in preliminary meetings with those involved. Sometimes, of course, I have to explain why this is (primarily it's because the system processes sometimes need access to other processes' shared memory segments), and that explanation, together with the assurance that there are no security holes, usually satisfies them.