I use sudo to log in as the oracle software owner. Works fine. To be honest, I can't remember the last time I logged in directly as the oracle owner. Just use the sudu su - oracle and you will get all the privs of the oracle owner. Steve Smith Envision Technology Partners / MSHA MSIS Team Desk: 303-231-5499 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alessandro Vercelli Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:11 AM To: goran00 Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re:logging as oracle using sudo Sudo is a tool that enable an user to perform tasks as root, not oracle. If you need to grant an user to perform tasks as oracle (i.e. database administration), then put that user into dba group. Regards, Alessandro > Hi all, > > The unix administrators at client site require to use unix sudo to log > in as oracle software owner. They are currently at 9i and plan to > migrate to 10g. Does anyone have some experience (good/bad) regarding > administering database 10g logging in as oracle owner using sudo? <cut> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l