Change UID and GID on SAP system

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have differenrt UID and GID of SAPSYS  and SIDADM on devlopment and quality server.Due to this we are getting STMS error (we have shared trans directory).

How to change the UID and GID of SAPSYS ,and SIDADM  ?

Regards

Paul

[former_member206552]

Hi Paul

please see the link below as this describes the procedure

http://www.dataxstream.com/2009/08/changeuidsidadm/

Best Regards

Marius

[rajan_thomas]

HI

use command SAM from terminal and navigate to users and group, there you can change UID and GID

take a backup of /etc/password before doing it in case if any thing goes wrong.

Rajan

[former_member188883]

Hi Paul,

You may need to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files on the development or quality to synchronize the UID and GUID.

Make sure UID and GUID are unique and being used by users related to SAP system only.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori

[Former Member]

Hi Deepak,

Thanks for the reply.

Could you please tell is there any command to change the UID and GID , as i have found certain links saying it is not recommended to change these files manualy .

Also after changing the entries in group and passwd file we need to change the owners and group throughout the system to update the ownership and group of SAP directories.Do we have any script or command to do this in one go?

Regards

Paul

[former_member188883]

Hi Paul,

I am not a unix expert. May be OS admin at your site could help you out with the scripts as well as appropriately modifying the /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files .

Regards,

Deepak Kori