Privileged users

A privileged user is one that has full administrative authorities for WebSphere MQ.

In addition to the users listed in the following table, members of any group with +crt authority for queues are indirectly administrators. Similarly, any user that has +set authority on the queue manager, and +put authority on the command queue is an administrator.

You should not grant these privileges to ordinary users and applications.

Table 1. Privileged users by platform.

A table of privileged users. On Windows, SYSTEM, all members of the mqm group, and all members of the Administrators group are privileged users. On UNIX and Linux® systems, all members of the mqm group are privileged users. On IBM® i, the profiles (users) qmqm and qmqmadm, all members of the qmqmadm group, and any user defined with the *ALLOBJ setting are privileged users.
Platform Privileged users
Windows systems
  • SYSTEM
  • Members of the mqm group
  • Members of the Administrators group
UNIX and Linux systems
  • Members of the mqm group