You can run either a deployment manager or application server as root in WebSphere® Application Server Version 8.5 when you previously used a non-root user ID on Linux and UNIX platforms in Version 6.1 or above.
This article is about configuration migration, such as migrating deployment managers and federated nodes in a network deployment environment. The Application Migration Toolkit for WebSphere Application Server provides support for migrating applications from previous versions of WebSphere Application Server to the latest product version. For information about migrating applications, read more about the Application Migration Toolkit.
sptcfgThis must be done for the deployment manager or application servers to run correctly.
cd $WASROOT/profiles/ chown -R wasadmin dmgr/ chgrp -R wasndgrp dmgr/ chmod -R 755 dmgr/ ... cd $WASROOT/profiles/dmgr/bin ./startManager.shwhere the profile name is dmgr run as a user in wasadmin with the primary group wasndgrp.