Re: Changing Oracle gid and uid?

Mark Bole wrote:

>Exactly. Who besides root (UID=0) can perform a chown? So, as shown
>correctly in the steps I listed, you should not have to re-set any
>setuid bits to successfully change the ownership of oracle software.

/tmp$ ll xxx
----rws--x 1 oracle dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ chmod 6071 xxx
/tmp$ ll xxx
---Srws--x 1 oracle dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ chown jeg xxx
/tmp$ ll xxx
----rwx--x 1 jeg dba 0 Oct 12 11:10 xxx /tmp$ whoami
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Joel Garry
http://www.garry.to

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