DBAs running root.sh
- From: Austin Hackett <hacketta_57@xxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l digest users <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:08:10 +0000
Hi List
If you work in a security conscious environment, I'd be keen to hear how your
site handles the root.sh script.
To give you some background:
In my environment, DBAs are currently given direct root access to allow them to
run root.sh. However, the SA Team would like to tighten this up. If giving the
DBAs direct root access isn't acceptable (not even temporarily) then two
options spring to my mind:
1) SA team run root.sh on behalf of the DBAs. Geography and logistics in my
organisation are such that having an SA walk over to the DBAs desk is a
realistic option. Our SAs aren't keen on this approach
2) Give DBAs the ability to run root.sh as the root user via sudo. This, of
course, means that DBAs can run anything they like by editing root.sh, so
doesn't really help. Understandably our SAs don't like this approach
I am being asked to look into keeping Oracle software version specific root.sh
scripts in a root-owned location (we are Linux only, so no multi-platform
concerns). This would allow for secure sudo privileges. We'd need these for
RDBMS, Grid Infrastructure, and Client.
However, I've explained the scripts are dynamically generated by runInstaller
and have the Oracle Home path hard-coded into them. We'd need a root-owned
root.sh for every distinct ORACLE_HOME path we create (some hosts have multiple
homes, so there's dbhome_1, dbhome_2 etc.). Maybe there are other
considerations that I'm unaware of - I don't really like to second guess what
else is going on in the "closed box" of the OUI that could be host dependent.
To my mind, taking this non-standard approach is more risky than having
someone run the script on our behalf, even if it risks introducing delays into
the build process.
How is this handled in your organisation? Have you ever been asked to have a
centralised set of root.sh scripts under root control for this reason? Have you
made it work?
If anyone has some time to share their experiences, it would be much
appreciated.
Regards
Austin
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