In Oracle 10g, you should be able to run $ORACLE_HOME/install/changePerm.sh , This relaxes security on the software binaries to pre-10g state. Bradd Piontek "Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction." -- William Feather On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've never touched Oracle 10 software, but some enterpise software is > forcing me to use a 10g client. I need to be able to allow a user on > the linux db server host to use a 10 oracle client. It seems default > permissions prevent this. Is there a script somewhere that sets the > software so it is usable? Maybe it is a patch to something above > 10.2.0.1 that get's this right (or wrong given the security issues)? > I can't find the right meatlink note. Thanks. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >