Expensive move.... I'd rather go 64-bit Linux on Intel myself.Get more machine at much more attractive price and just a stable IMHO. RF Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press) The LDS Church is looking for DBA's. You must be LDS to apply (please don't write to me and tell me I'm breaking the law. A church can choose to hire members of it's own faith. Look it up if you don't believe me). ----- Original Message ---- From: S. Anthony Sequeira <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:24:49 PM Subject: Re: AIX 10g/11 and Oracle DBA logins On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:49 -0500, DIANNA GIBBS wrote: > We are moving all of our instances to AIX from Windows and VMS. Congratulations. It's a good move. > Since I have been the only DBA on the new AIX servers, I have been > using the oracle OS user login. Now that we are moving into production, > we have several DBAs and would like all of us to log in using our specific > username > and su to oracle user or be able to do anything needed as if we were the > oracle user. We are currently able to do this on Windows and VMS. [...] sudo is the answer. > Any direction or information appreciated. > Thanks! > Dianna G. -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ that's a Kludge(TM) It Works(tm) AIX works(TM) no it doesn't => ++ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l