Permission Denied when attempting to access the Identity Manager Overview task

  • Document ID:3962764
  • Creation Date:12-Feb-2007
  • Modified Date:26-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Identity Manager

Environment

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Novell Identity Manager iManager Plug-ins
Novell Identity Manager Identity Manager 3.0.1
Novell iManager 2.6
Novell iManager 2.5

Situation

After installing the Identity Manager plug-ins patch (10.1.20061031) the following error occurred when attempting to access the Identity Manager Overview task:
/var/opt/novell/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/nps/portal/modules/DirXML/skins/default/devices/default/DirXMLOverviewSelect_jsp.java
(Permission denied)
This happened because there are precompiled servlets installed whose ownership is set to "root root".

Resolution

To resolve this issue, change the ownership of the files to novlwww:www by doing the following:
  • Determine the install location by viewing the INSTALL_LOCATION from the file /etc/eMFrameInstall.properties. The default location is /var/opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps.
  • From the INSTALL_LOCATION directory go up two directories (ch ../..) and change to the work/Standalone/localhost/nps directory. If using the default path, you would be in /var/opt/novell/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/nps.
  • To change the owner and group of all files within this and all subdirectories, run the command:
chown -R novlwww:www .