Case

You are executing a kernel upgrade and receiving  message:

The provided <sid>adm credentials are either incorrect or SAP Note 927637 should be applied. 

Solution

Check & correct the file permissions of sapuxuserchk

# find /usr/sap -name sapuxuserchk

/usr/sap/<SID>/JC01/exe/sapuxuserchk

/usr/sap/<SID>/SCS00/exe/sapuxuserchk

# chown root:sapsys /usr/sap/<SID>/JC01/exe/sapuxuserchk

# chmod u+s,o-rwx /usr/sap/<SID>/JC01/exe/sapuxuserchk

# chown root:sapsys /usr/sap/<SID>/SCS00/exe/sapuxuserchk

# chmod u+s,o-rwx /usr/sap/<SID>/SCS00/exe/sapuxuserchk