Re: Unix user Oracle
- From: Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:46:46 -0400
Of course, in the bad old days, they told us to use "oradba" ... you might
still that here and there.
r,
Gus
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alex List <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rodd and William,
>
> Thanks a lot for the explanation, I was in doubt if it was true, but now I
> am relaxed that sometimes in my installations I had to change names.
>
> Thanks again.
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 14:19, Rodd Holman <rodd.holman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The "oracle" user by default has no more or less privileges than joe, bob,
>> or john. It's just a userid created by your SA to manage oracle software
>> installs and running the database. The extra privileges are granted to the
>> user by assigning groups, or adjusting kernel and processing limits as
>> described in the oracle installation documentation for unix systems. You
>> could name the user anything you want to, but why would you? Most of the
>> folks in this world, and Oracle's own documentation use the "oracle" user
>> for this purpose. This is one where most folks just go with the flow.
>>
>> --Rodd Holman
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:10 PM, William Muriithi <
>> william.muriithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This misconception may have come up because too many oracle documentation
>>> advice the use of oracle as best practice. Someone may then have inferred
>>> that to mean, it has special treatment by the OS and a myth was born
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> ...
>>> Its when we create an unix user account, the "oracle" user account
>>> (spelled like this) has some extra advantages (like priorities and
>>> privileges) on the operating system instead of creating something like
>>> "oradb", "ora10g" or whatever we create.
>>>
>>> Looking for this info on the Internet, I didnt find, but if we consider
>>> installing on Oracle Enterprise Linux perhaps might be truth!! ... just
>>> guessing!
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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