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Re: oinstall group (hopefully not a stupid question)

From: Olen Kline <olenkline_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:12:46 -0400
Message-ID: <4be81a0a0610061312g73c429e8w54770fc3845f52ca@mail.gmail.com>


Nope, never set it up. Always used Oracle. Been doing it that way since 1990 haven't heard a good reason to change. Of course, my DB servers don't have user accounts on them, all developer, user connections are over the network.

On 10/6/06, Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> oinstall group (hopefully not a stupid question)I've always used oracle
> group dba to install. But I wonder the same thing everytime I do a new
> installation. I always figured it was for the separation of those in the dba
> group from the oracle owner. Many people can startup/shutdown database as
> long as they are in the dba group, but only oracle:oinstall can go in and
> mess with binaries/files and such.
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