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Set up an Account for Installing BusinessObjects Enterprise

To set up an account for installing BusinessObjects Enterprise

1. Create a new user account, and set this user's primary group to the new group. Assign a secure password to the new user account.
2. Ensure that the account you created has read, write, and execute permissions on the new installation directory. Permissions are also required for the non-root user home directory.
3. Assign the new user a default login shell, and create or modify the appropriate login script(s) for the user account. In particular, ensure that the login script(s) set up a default login environment that meets these requirements:
   • All of the commands and utilities required by the install setup program must be accessible in the PATH environment variable.
   • The user's login environment must set up the database environment such that the install setup program can access your database client software.
   • The user's login environment must set up a default locale that is supported by your UNIX system and BusinessObjects Enterprise.
4. The CA Business Intelligence installer takes the default installation path from the environment variable CASHCOMP. If CASHCOMP is not set, the installer asks for CASHCOMP, with the default being /opt/CA/SharedComponents (which you can change). The default installation path is taken from CASHCOMP after it has been set. You can overwrite it however, and make the default directory your choice.

   Note: The directory that you specify for the installation is referred to as INSTALLDIR throughout this document.

5. Create a new user or use an existing user that meets all of the requirements mentioned in the previous steps.

Examples

On Linux:

To add a group:

grouadd groupname

To create user home directory:

mkdir -p /home/dir_name

To add a user:

useradd -g groupname -d /home/dir_name -p password username

To change the owner for the directory:

chown -R /home/dir_name username:groupname

To change the permission for home directory:

chmod -R 777 /home/dir_name

More information:

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