As long as it is in DBA group, what is the matter with not being user ORACLE? many users run multiple database version , using different unix account. On 7/13/05, RSL <rob.langmuir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a third-party application, which as part of installation process, > uses it's own Unix account to create/startup Oracle database/instance. They > also want to start a listener with this account. > > In the future we plan to add our own instances/databases, and these will all > be started/created using Oracle account. > -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l