PMDF Installation Guide
Tru64 UNIX Edition
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1.3 Preliminary Tasks for Upgrade Installations

If you are upgrading from PMDF V5.0, change the PMDF user account name before you start the upgrade. (See Section 1.3.1 below for more information.) If you are upgrading from PMDF V5.1 or later, skip the next section and go to the installation procedures. (See Section 1.4 for more information.)

1.3.1 Change PMDF User Account Name

PMDF V5.0 used pmdf_user to specify a PMDF user account (an unprivileged account used for performing some specialized tasks). As of PMDF V5.1 the name of the PMDF user account is pmdfuser. This PMDF user account name is relevant for sites using PMDF sequence number files.

Note
The old pmdf_user was problematic on Tru64 UNIX systems, as it is greater than eight characters in length.
So, if you have an old PMDF user account with the old name pmdf_user, change it to use the new name, pmdfuser. However, if you do not want to change the account name at this time, you can use the following command to set the PMDF_USER_USERNAME option in the PMDF tailor file (/etc/pmdf_tailor) to point to the old PMDF user account name: 


PMDF_USER_USERNAME=pmdf_user
You will need to reimplement this change (or actually change the account name) each time you upgrade PMDF, since your PMDF tailor file is overwritten every time you upgrade.

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