You'll want to read here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-satuidgid/index.html David Fitzjarrell ________________________________ From: "Hameed, Amir" <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 1:56:10 PM Subject: Changing numeric ID for the oracle UID and the GID Folks, I need to change the numeric IDs for the UID and the GID of the oracle account which owns the RDBMS and the Grid infrastructure. This is a two-node RAC (11.2.0.2) running on Solaris. The current id looks like: $ id uid=89488(oracle) gid=6001(oinstall) The future id would look like: uid=202(oracle) gid=200(oinstall) Has anyone done this before? Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks Amir