Users that are required for specific applications need to be set up on all vPars on which an application is going to run. Since vPars are like individual systems, you'll put the users, including application users, on the vPars where you need them and not on others. On a system running Broadvision and Oracle, for instance, you would set up the users required for those applications. The following shows an /etc/passwd output on a system running these two applications:
# cat /etc/passwd root:9Obj3Cya98pFo:0:3::/.root:/sbin/sh daemon:*:1:5::/:/sbin/sh bin:*:2:2::/usr/bin:/sbin/sh sys:*:3:3::/: adm:*:4:4::/var/adm:/sbin/sh uucp:*:5:3::/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lbin/uucp/uucico lp:*:9:7::/var/spool/lp:/sbin/sh nuucp:*:11:11::/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lbin/uucp/uucico hpdb:*:27:1:ALLBASE:/:/sbin/sh nobody:*:-2:-2::/: www:*:30:1::/: webadmin:*:40:1::/usr/obam/server/nologindir:/usr/bin/false smbnull:*:101:101:DO NOT USE OR DELETE - needed by Samba:/home/smbnull:/sbin/sh opc_op:*:777:77:OpC default operator:/home/opc_op:/usr/bin/ksh stssmrp:HFQrTOZx920Fg:1108:20:Martin Paul:/home/stssmrp:/bin/ksh stssmrpr:pugxhblYiahZI:0:3:Martin Paul:/home/stssmrp:/bin/ksh stssjtf:VammVKnIwD/T.:1185:20:John Fontanilla:/home/stssjtf:/usr/bin/ksh pbcombv:UzGN5gDTNfgQM:102:20:PB.COM User:/home/pbcombv:/usr/bin/ksh <--BVuser oracle:11Z/oQQfEHzOo:1012:111:Oracle User:/home/oracle:/bin/ksh <--Oracleuser #
Note the last two users in the file for Broadvision (pvcombv) and Oracle (oracle) with their respective home directories. With these two applications running on the Virtual Partition, the appropriate users had to be set up.
The remainder of this chapter covers background information related to users.
