Hello Satish, As you seem to be a SAP customer, I have to advise you to open customer messages at SAP for problems related to SAP software.
A workaround for your problem would be to create the database on the command line as user root using dbmcli with option -s: dbmcli -s -R /sapdb/LN1/db db_create LN1 CONTROL,vcs12345 Best regards, Tilo Heinrich Senior Developer MaxDB&liveCache SAP AG http://www.sap.com <http://www.sap.com/> Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office: Walldorf, Germany Vorstand/SAP Executive Board: Henning Kagermann (Sprecher/CEO), Shai Agassi, Léo Apotheker, Werner Brandt, Claus Heinrich, Gerhard Oswald, Peter Zencke Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairperson of the SAP Supervisory Board: Hasso Plattner Registergericht/Commercial Register Mannheim No HRB 350269 Diese E-Mail kann Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse oder sonstige vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Sollten Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, ist Ihnen eine Kenntnisnahme des Inhalts, eine Vervielfältigung oder Weitergabe der E-Mail ausdrücklich untersagt. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie uns und vernichten Sie die empfangene E-Mail. Vielen Dank. This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby notified that any review, copying, or distribution of it is strictly prohibited. Please inform us immediately and destroy the original transmittal. Thank you for your cooperation. -----Original Message----- From: Satish K. Pagare Sent: Donnerstag, 29. März 2007 14:01 To: maxdb@lists.mysql.com Subject: PAM authentication failed on linux while installing MaxDB Database Seeing following errors in sapinst.log INFO 2007-03-29 16:25:23 Account sqdln1 already exists. ERROR 2007-03-29 16:25:25 The dbmcli call for action DB_CREATE failed. Check the logfile XCMDOUT.LOG. ERROR 2007-03-29 16:25:25 The dbmcli call for action DB_CREATE failed. Check the logfile XCMDOUT.LOG. ERROR 2007-03-29 16:25:25 FCO-00011 The step sdb_create_db_instance with step key |NW_Doublestack_DB|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_CreateDBandLoad|ind|ind|ind|ind|9|0|NW_CreateDB|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_ADA_DB|ind|ind|ind|ind|6|0|SdbPreInstanceDialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|3|0|SdbInstanceDialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|SDB_INSTANCE_CREATE|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|sdb_create_db_instance was executed with status ERROR . And the XCMDOUT.LOG has following error: ERR -24875,ERR_NEEDADMI: The operating system user is not a member of the database administrators group -24994,ERR_RTE: Runtime environment error 5,PAM authentication failed: Authentication failure Here's the snippet from /etc/group sapinst:x:500:root,ln1adm sapsys:x:501: sdba:*:502:sqdln1,root,sdb,ln1adm Here's the relevant part from the /etc/passwd file: ln1adm:x:500:501:SAP System Administrator:/home/ln1adm:/bin/csh sdb:x:501:502:Database Software Owner:/home/sdb:/bin/csh sqdln1:x:502:501:Owner of Database Instance LN1:/home/sqdln1:/bin/csh Any idea why PAM is not authenticating the root user correctly? Even manually firing the dbmcli gives the same error: # /sapdb/programs/bin/dbmcli -n sapln1db -R /sapdb/LN1/db db_create LN1 CONTROL,vcs12345 sqdln1,vcs12345 ERR -24875,ERR_NEEDADMI: The operating system user is not a member of the database administrators group -24994,ERR_RTE: Runtime environment error 5,PAM authentication failed: Authentication failure Please help. Satish/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 186,282 miles per second: It isn't just a good idea, it's the law! --------------------------------------------------------------------------
