Re: Ownership on Oracle CRS Home binary files

Hi

I have always installed crs with non-root, in fact I am not even sure if it's supported using root as owner.

I have just succesfully implemented a 4 nodes extended rac on solaris 10 using different users for each oracle software, crs, asm and db and it works well.

Regarding patches I think some patches, specially crs bundles, requieres you to unlock permissions but there are some scripts which comes with these patches to do theses tasks, unlocking and locking the permissions

Thanks

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Anurag Verma <anuragdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:



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> We are installing a 3 node Oracle 10.2.0.4 RAC on Solaris 10 box.

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> We are installing Oracle Clusterware as the Rac cluster software.

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> My question is:

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> Is it a good practice to assign a non-root user( not "root" and not the

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> Or is it mandatory that we have to keep "root" user as the owner of

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> Our plan to keep a non-root user as the Oracle Clusterware owner, is mainly

> originated from the idea that as we can not run opatch from root user, if we

> need to patch Oracle Clusterware in future, we will end up changing

> permissions of Oracle CRS home files which will be owned by root.

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> Do you have some guidelines or best practices on which approach is

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> Whether it is root user or a non-root user?

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> Anurag Verma,

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> ERCOT(Electric Reliability Council of Texas),

> Texas 76574

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