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>> Since a couple weeks ago, when a "DBA" deleted the filesystem containing
>> the system tablespace datafile?
Fouled SA reasoning from what I can see. DBA's have enough power that they can wipe out their database (and many others with it) regardless if they have root priv's or not. So he wiped out the FS... next time he might just do an rm -r * on the FS. If he's a member of the DBA group and the FS is setup as Oracle recommends... well he might as well have dropped the file system.
It's a cost/benefit ratio thing.... to me there is more benefit in the DBA having root privs than not as long as they have a **certain amount of admin experience** and there is a clear distinction of what he does, and does not, do.
RF
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>> Yeah? And there's a good reason we SAs keep root privileges away
>> from you DBAs. :-))
> Since when?
Since a couple weeks ago, when a "DBA" deleted the filesystem containing the system tablespace datafile?
I was just returning some friendly stabs from a DBA to an SA -- but I could provide lots of examples. :)
Gary Chambers
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