Linux User Account Requirements for Fitrix

Each Fitrix user should have their own user account (login) established on the Linux server. Please follow these guidelines for setting up user accounts:

Basic User Account Creation:

The easiest way to setup a new user account with full access is:

At the Linux Host system (system console screen) where you installed the Fitrix Linux host software:

o Press control+alt+F2 (this should position you to a text window)

Login as ‘root’:

Login: root

Password: <enter your root password here>

Create a standard user ‘johndoe’ and set initial password:

$ useradd -m -G informix,fitrix johndoe

$ passwd johndoe

Create an administrator/developer user ‘janedoe’ and set initial password:

$ useradd -m -G informix,fitrix,root,fxdev janedoe

$ passwd janedoe

NOTE: The above example will create user janedoe and put her in group root. Any user that is a member of group root will have the capability to edit Visual Menus options as well as leave the menus and access the Linux server from the command prompt (a.k.a ‘shell out’ of the menus). Membership is group 'fxdev' grants necessary programmer privileges.

Additional user account guidelines:

1. We do not advise running Fitrix applications as user ‘root’

2. The user accounts must have groups: ‘informix’.

3. If the user requires administrator privileges in the menu, the account must also have group ‘root’

4. Note that the Fitrix login process will bypass any .profile settings.