-----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LS Cheng Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:21 PM To: Oracle Mailinglist Subject: Oracle Server Process Owner in AIX Hi Recently I have observed that databases sessions by other non-oracle OS users started in the AIX Servers where the database is running becomes the owner of the server process. For example if I logon to AIX box as user john and as john I execute sqlplus username/password (not using TNS) when I do ps -fu john | grep LOCAL I actually see john as the process owner. I have never observed this behaviour in other UNIX flavours (or I havent observed carefully but for sure Linux behaves other way), I have seen this behaviour in Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2, 11gR2 running in AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1. Is this expected? I have observed this behaviour after investigating some ORA-04030 errors when some PL/SQL packages are run as non-oracle users in AIX. Thanks! -- LSC -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l