An OS service user account needs to be created on the EBS server that is hosting the label output directory needed for asynchronous label printing. This is typically hosted on the EBS database server. If the label output directory is hosted elsewhere, the directory needs to be accessible to the EBS database server via a DBA Directory.
It is recommended that the EBS OS service user account be named “cipher”, but you can name this service account anything you want. The OS username for this service account is irrelevant.
Contact your Linux administrator to setup the EBS OS service account. The following basic steps can be used to create this service account. The user “cipher” will be used in this example.
- Log into the EBS Linux server that will host the label output directory with a user that has sudo rights.
- Execute the following command to create the OS service user account:
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sudo useradd cipher
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- Execute the following command to set the password for the OS service user account:
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sudo passwd cipher
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