Hay Everybody,

I'm setting up new DB2 Database Systems right now and I was wondering about something I could not find in IBM Documentation.

I know what the fenced user is for and stuff, but does this user need:
a) a login shell
and
b) a home directory
??

For security concerns I don't want to give this user a loginshell.
I was just thinking if this is really neccessairy. For what I know is that the fenced user is most likely the DB2 pendant to the nobody user that can run a process but is not a system user.

Question might be stupid, but I was just wondering about this.

regards
roman

DB2 fence user requires home directory and login shell. DB2 fence user is used for stored procedure executation and I think for external stored procedures it stores DLL in fence home directory.

Kuckoo