On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:30:45AM -0600, Bradd Piontek wrote: > 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. implications seem to be the fix came in 10.2.0.2, where changePerm.sh is included. Does that sound right? Bug 4516865 - Wrong permissions after install of 10gR2 (10.2.0.1) [ID 4516865.8] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l