User Maintenance Considerations

In general, user maintenance in a horizontally scaled system is the same as in a single-machine system. However, there is one major difference: you must maintain identical OS user accounts (same user names and passwords) on all machines or nodes in the horizontally scaled system. This is because user definitions in the Lawson system are linked to OS users. Since users can access any of the nodes of the horizontally scaled system, the same OS user accounts must be available in each case. To meet this requirement for identical OS user accounts, the users for a horizontally scaled system must be domain users, rather than local users. This impacts the following cases:

• When you add a user to the Lawson system, the OS user account linked to that user must be a domain user account, not a local user account.

• If you want to delete every trace of a user from your system, you must delete the domain user account as well as the user information in the Lawson system.