The account under which Cognos 8 runs must:
have access to all required resources, such as printers and Web servers
have the rights to logon as a service and act as part of the operating system
be a member of the local admin group
For example, to print reports using a network printer, the account must have access to the network printer, or you must assign a logon account to the Cognos 8 service.
For Windows, we recommend that you assign a logon account to the Cognos 8 service. You can configure the Cognos 8 service to use a special user account by selecting the Cognos 8 service from the list of services shown in the Services window in Windows. You can then define the user account properties.
For UNIX or Linux, we recommend that you create a new UNIX or Linux group named cognos8. This group must contain the user that owns the Cognos files. Change the group ownership of the Cognos files to the cognos8 group and change the file permissions for all Cognos files to GROUP READABLE/WRITABLE/EXECUTABLE.