Mark Bole wrote: >Exactly. Who besides root (UID=0) can perform a chown? So, as shown >correctly in the steps I listed, you should not have to re-set any >setuid bits to successfully change the ownership of oracle software. /tmp$ ll xxx ----rws--x 1 oracle dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ chmod 6071 xxx /tmp$ ll xxx ---Srws--x 1 oracle dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ chown jeg xxx /tmp$ ll xxx ----rwx--x 1 jeg dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ whoami oracle Joel Garry http://www.garry.to -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l