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Re: Best Practices for Oracle on Windows

From: Mohammad Rafiq <rafiq9857_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:03:35 -0500
Message-ID: <28ae33f10502031203ee4347f@mail.gmail.com>


Niall,
can we create ORA_DBA group manually(if not created during installation or removed afterward) and will it allow member of that group to connect as SYSDBA without SYS password? Regards
Rafiq

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:27:20 +0000, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:00:16 -0500, Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us
> <Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am looking for some best practice guidelines for assigning administrator
> > privilege for Oracle on Windows. I'm coming from a UNIX environment, where
> > oracle binaries and datafiles and whatnot are all owned by oracle. Root
> > things that need to be done are done from another account that is in the
> > root wheel, and done through deliberate actions as needed.
>
> In terms of *installing* the Oracle software, you should use an
> account with local administrator privileges for this (doesn't have to
> be a domain administrator). That doesn't mean that the dba needs to
> have administrative access to the machine (though I do on all the
> database machines in our place). Oracle installation creates an OS
> group ORA_DBA which is equivalent to the dba group on Unix. DBA
> Accounts should be placed in this group. (You can also create a group
> ORA_<SID>_DBA just to restrict them to particular databases).
>
> I'd strongly recommend that you create a domain group (or groups
> depending on how many types of dba you have) that you place dba users
> domain accounts in. Then you can assign the domain group to the local
> dba group on relevant boxes. Then you can audit who does what since
> the dbas all should use their own accounts to do their administration.
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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