Introduction

Vitalware is installed on a Unix machine as a server application. In order to restrict access to the database files a Unix group is created.

Vitalware requires a user and group account to be setup. The user account is called vw which is used to administer Vitalware. The group account, called vwadmin, is used to limit access to the Vitalware data files.

Adding user vw, group vwadmin and creating the vw home directory

1. Log in as root.
2. Launch the  account management software for your host.
3. Create a new group called vwadmin.
4. Create a new user  called vw whose default group is vwadmin.
   Note the last component of user vw's home directory must be vw (e.g. /home/vw).
   Login shell in order of preference is bash, ksh, sh.
5. The permissions for user vw's home directory must allow a normal user read and execute access.
   Enter cd  ~vw
   Enter chmod  755 .