RE: Permission Denied

  • From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:19:38 -0400

Thanks Pete, not just for explaining this and pursuing it as a bug, but for the
sensible attitude of pursuing the improvement of the product even though a
documentation excuse was available.



Sometimes we do want a only a warning that we can override. Sometimes we damn
well want the thing to stop and take exception to us specifying something that
cannot work, is clearly an error, and may require cleanup.



Again: Thanks.



mwf



From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 3:01 PM
To: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx; Seth Miller
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Subject: RE: Permission Denied



Andy and I went a few rounds offline on this and the associated “Cloud Control
patching” thread, and you’ll be pleased to know that Andy won. J



Seriously, just circling back with the resolution here. The problem was Andy
was using a named credential that had the normal user set to the Oracle
software owner (which is of course correct) but also had RUNAS set to root.
The end result of that was that OPatch was installed under the Oracle software
home as root, not as oracle, and as we all know that will break shit. L



I spoke to some of my patching colleagues in Product Management and they said
it is actually documented somewhere that you should not have RUNAS set like
this. I didn’t bother searching for that particular documentation as both
myself and the relevant product manager agreed the product should not work that
way. It should at least provide an error that you should not have RUNAS set,
and more preferably should install OPatch as the Oracle software owner as that
information is already specified in the named credential.



This has been logged as bug# 21699304.



Pete

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