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Procedure documentation Assigning Access Privileges for Directories and Files Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Before changing the access privileges, save your current settings. This procedure is only relevant for database instances up to version 7.4 (inclusive).

Saving Current Settings

Enter the following commands:

cd /usr/sap
ls -lR > sap_perm.txt

cd /sapmnt
ls -lR > sap_sw.txt

cd /sapdb/<SID>
ls -lR > sapdb_perm.txt
(as of database version 7.5, only the root user can access these directories, with either read or write accesses)

Setting Access Privileges

To change the access privileges for a file or a directory, use the chmod command as shown below:

chmod <access_privileges_in_octal_format> <file_or_directory>

Example

chmod 750 /sapdb/<SID>/sap*

chmod 750 /sapdb/<SID>/sapdata/*

chmod 750 /sapdb/<SID>/saplog/*

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Caution

Do not use chmodrecursively. It is very easy to make unintended changes to authorizations when doing so.

 

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