The "oracle" user by default has no more or less privileges than joe, bob, or john. It's just a userid created by your SA to manage oracle software installs and running the database. The extra privileges are granted to the user by assigning groups, or adjusting kernel and processing limits as described in the oracle installation documentation for unix systems. You could name the user anything you want to, but why would you? Most of the folks in this world, and Oracle's own documentation use the "oracle" user for this purpose. This is one where most folks just go with the flow. --Rodd Holman On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:10 PM, William Muriithi < william.muriithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This misconception may have come up because too many oracle documentation > advice the use of oracle as best practice. Someone may then have inferred > that to mean, it has special treatment by the OS and a myth was born > > ------------------------------ > ... > Its when we create an unix user account, the "oracle" user account (spelled > like this) has some extra advantages (like priorities and privileges) on the > operating system instead of creating something like "oradb", "ora10g" or > whatever we create. > > Looking for this info on the Internet, I didnt find, but if we consider > installing on Oracle Enterprise Linux perhaps might be truth!! ... just > guessing! > ... > > Alex > >