Set Up sybase User in Windows

After you install SAP ASE, stop the services and set up the "sybase" user in Windows.

Perform these steps as the "sybase" user that installed the SAP ASE product. Verify that the "sybase" user is a member of the Windows system-defined group "Administrators" so the user has the access privileges to perform these steps.

  1. Stop all SAP ASE services.
    From the Windows task manager, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Select each of the SAP ASE entries and stop them. There are separate entries for Sybase SQLServer, XPServer, BCKServer, and SYSAM.
  2. Identify the drives and folders where the SAP ASE software is installed, and identify the SAP ASE disk devices. Use Windows Explorer or cacls (a Windows command line utility) to set access permissions on the identified drives and folders.

    We recommend that you grant full control to the user "sybase" and deny access to others on all identified drives, files, and folder hierarchies.

    If users other than "sybase" need access to files (configuration files, programs, libraries, and so on) in the folder hierarchy, limit their access to read and execute. The administrator should carefully review this access, and any other further permissions, to ensure they are required.

  3. Specify SAP ASE services to start as the user "sybase":
    • From the Windows task manager, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Select each of the SAP ASE entries installed.
    • Set the "Log On" properties for each of the entries to use "sybase" and the password for this account. This action results in the user "sybase" being granted "log on as a service" rights by Windows.
    • Select each of the SAP ASE entries that you stopped in the first step, and start them.
Parent topic: Postinstallation Tasks