Installation - Is there a way to change the<sid>adm environment directory?

[Former Member]

Experts:

During the install process all the .sap .j2ee environment files as well as start and stop scripts are located in the home directory of the user <sid>adm. Is there someway to have these built during the install in a directory that is not the home for <sid>adm? This is a UNIX Solaris SPARC server. Thanks.

Regards,

David Carr

Basis Administrator

[former_member227283 · Accepted solution]

Hi David,

Any specific reason why you have to change the home directory of SAP instance.

Yes, you can change before installation, before you start installation, you create SIDADM user using sap inst, there in additional software cycle option is there where you create user manually before you start installation , in that option you can provide the home directory location of SIDADM user.

Also after installation you can change it, there is an environment variable called as HOME, in which the home directory of the user is specified, you just have to copy the existing home directory to new location and change the environment variable pointing to new folder location

Thanks

Anil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Anil,

First, thanks for the solution!

To answer your question as to why - it is due to concern over the authority root would have to user home directories. To allow root this kind of authority would allow the root user to potentially compromise any and all users in the corporate UNIX environment.

We actually decided to re-install but this time the user home directories would be defined as /sapmnt/sidadm and /oracle/orasid

Thanks again for the help.

David

[Former Member]

They are . (dot) fiiles hence you may have to list as below (hope you should get the all files you are looking for) login as <SID>adm and then execute belo command:

ls -al