Symptom
The installation of a SAP system on AIX fails in step "Install common system files" with error:
"Modifying the USER sapadm failed. SOLUTION: Modify the account manually and choose OK to continue."
Analysing the logs as explained in note 2142461 - How to start analysing issues in SWPM shows an error:
"Unable to create account user="sapadm". 3004-703 Check "/etc/security/login.cfg" file. (return code 22)"
The user can be different, it does not have to be sapadm.
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Environment
- SAP NetWeaver 7.5
- SAP NetWeaver 7.4
- AIX
- Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM)
Product
Keywords
user, shell, installation, SAP ASE, Sybase, HANA, system copy, database migration, homogeneous system copy, hetereogeneous system copy, /bin/false, /etc/security/login.cfg , KBA , BC-OP-AIX , IBM AIX , BC-INS , Installation Tools (SAP Note 1669327) , Problem
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