Re: Changing Oracle gid and uid?

  • From: "Joel Garry" <joelgarry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:25:58 -0700

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 


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