posted 15 years ago
WebSphere uses roles to control who has access to administrative operations (like the admin console and wsadmin scripts) and applications. You can turn security off, but then anyone will be able to use the admin console. You can tell that security is off if the admin console doesn't prompt for a password.
There are a number of administrative roles. They are administrator, operator, configurator, monitor and adminsecuritymanager. When you build a cell, a user is created that has the administrator and adminsecuritymanager roles. This user has full administrative authority and can give other users full administrative authority. If you want other users to have administrative authority you can login with the administrative userid and give them the right role. In the admin console, go to Users and Groups > Administrative User Roles, and you can click Add and give a user the administrator role as long as they are already defined in you user registry. (If you are running on the z/OS operating system, let me know.) If you give a user an administrative role in the admin console, it will apply to scripting as well.
What were you trying to do when you got the error?
Regards,
Mike