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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn order to change or otherwise update the groups assigned to the various system authorities you would run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\t$ db2 update dbm cfg using [<\/strong>system authority<\/em><\/strong>]_group [<\/strong>group_name<\/em><\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As an example, if you were wanting the group group1<\/em> to have SYSCTRL authority and the group group2<\/em> to have SYSMON authority you would run the command like so (if these authorities were already assigned to groups, running this command will overwrite them, which would cause members of the previous groups to lose their authority):<\/p>\n\n\n\n $ db2 update dbm cfg using sysctrl_group group1 sysmon group2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you need to remove groups from an assigned authority you would replace the group’s name with the word ‘null’ like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n $ db2 update dbm cfg using sysmaint_group null<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep in mind that the database manager configuration is not configurable online. This means that the instance will have to be stopped and restarted in order for the changes to take effect. This may take some planning in a production environment. Once you have your groups assigned in the database manager configuration, giving users these authorities is a simple matter of making them members of the appropriate group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n References<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chong, R. F., Liu, C., Qi, S. F., & Snow, D. R. (2005). Understanding DB2: Learning visually with examples ;. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do I grant a user SYSADM, SYSCTRL, SYSMAINT, or SYSMON privileges in Db2? As a newbie to the database administration world, I was tasked with giving a pretend user the ability to create databases in a virtual environment setup for learning. I easily found that the lowest level of permission that the user would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":35475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4166,17],"tags":[18,3945,3946],"class_list":["post-35470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-db2","tag-db2","tag-permissions","tag-system-authorities"],"yoast_head":"\n