Re: Unix user Oracle

  • From: Alex List <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle I List <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:34:40 -0200

Hi Rodd and William,

Thanks a lot for the explanation, I was in doubt if it was true, but now I
am relaxed that sometimes in my installations I had to change names.

Thanks again.
Alex




On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 14:19, Rodd Holman <rodd.holman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>

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