Administration Guide

Managing Multiple User Accounts

When running in the LDAP environment, the user account must be defined in several locations:

In the operating system. DB2 uses the operating system account to perform DB2 authentication. The account must be defined at both the DB2 client and the DB2 server machine for DB2 server authentication. That is, before connecting to the database: you need an account on the client machine to log on; and an account on the DB2 server machine to authenticate.
In the LDAP directory for LDAP authentication. System management tools, such as Tivoli, or synchronization tools, are available to manage accounts in multiple places. These tools are used to ensure that any account update, like the changing of a password, is applied to all locations where the account is defined.

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