How do I change the Controller owner?

[#1]

In order to change the owner of the Controller, complete the following steps.

1. Stop all running Controller services using the following command in the machine terminal.

   • ./controller.sh stop

2. Change the username and user group of the Controller directory.

   • chown -R <New User>:<User Group> <Controller Folder>

3. Update the new user in the db.cnf file located at Controller/db/db.cnf.

   •   user=<New User>

4. Start the Controller.

   • ./controller.sh start

[Eli_Rodriguez]

Oops  you've accidently started your controller with root user instead of your app service user (ie appd, appdynamics, etc...) ?

1. First stop controller (as root) 

2. As root, change permissions back to original user and group

chown -R <original user>:<original group> <controller home>

Ie: chown -R appd:appd /opt/appdynamics/controller

3. Start controller with your original user.

That's it.

Thanks, 

--Eli

[Jeanie_Kedia1]

Good tip @Eli.Rodriguez  Thanks for contributing.