Catching up on old Oracle-L:
The only benefit I can see from it is that it prevents me from doing something like rm -rf /u01/oradata/db01/*.dbf when logged in as myself.
If I were really trying to lockdown the db's, each install of Oracle would have different owner:group. DBA would not have access to any files.
That just leaves root.
and since su - oracle still works...
Jared
Looking for general consensus here. Do people really set up an oinstall group and make that the oracle owner default group? Since this is not mandatory, does anyone have sage words on why this is recommended in Oracle install guides?
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist