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 >> >> >