RE: change unix user when running external procedure

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:48:33 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002CB280.20010313095325@fatcity.com>

External procedures run as the user under which the external procedure listener was started. It is not a good idea to have oracle be that user; you want the external procedure user to have as few privileges as possible. If you want the external procedure user to modify a file it does not own, either change the ownership of the file or change the permissions.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu

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I am running an external C procedure. The C function needs to access afile...but it is not owned by oracle and is read only for the user that does own it.

Is there anyway that I can access this file? External procedures always seem to run as oracle.

John

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