Re: Oracle ASM without root account

  • From: Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: przemolicc@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:04:14 +0100

2011/9/22  <przemolicc@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to use ASM without root access under AIX ?
> We are testing this configuration but in production it would be good
> to not use root account to maintain ASM configuration.
>

Hi,

What do you mean by ASM configuration ?
ASM instance is similar to database instance and every user with
sysasm (in 11.2) or sysdba (in 11.1 and 10g) can change any parameter
in ASM instance or disk/group configuration.

You will need root account to change physical disk permissions.

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