Re: Changing numeric ID for the oracle UID and the GID

Please read the entire link I supplied as it answers all of your  UNIX 
questions.  Additionally the GID is stored in /etc/group and the UID is stored 
in /etc/passwd but you shouldn't edit those files directly as there are 
likely corresponding shadow files which also need to be changed.  UNIX offers 
utilities to change these values which should be used to ensure success.  Again, 
all of this is provided in the link.
 
David Fitzjarrell





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From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>
To: oratune_at_yahoo.com
Cc: Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 2:17:02 PM
Subject: Re: Changing numeric ID for the oracle UID and the GID

Hmm, they need to be the same on all the nodes, I'm not sure if they are stored 
somewhere. I would certainly stop the entire cluster, do the change, fix the 
file ownership, and then start everything back up again, and do it on a testing 
server first. Also, it would be a good idea to open a SR with Oracle and have an 
"official" answer.

hth
Alan.-



On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM, David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

You'll want to read here:
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>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-satuidgid/index.html
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>David Fitzjarrell
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From: "Hameed, Amir" <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 1:56:10 PM
>Subject: Changing numeric ID for the oracle UID and the GID
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>Folks,
>I need to change the numeric IDs for the UID and the GID of the oracle account 
>which owns the RDBMS and the Grid infrastructure. This is a two-node RAC 
>(11.2.0.2) running on Solaris. The current id looks like:
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>$ id
>uid=89488(oracle) gid=6001(oinstall)
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>The future id would look like:
>uid=202(oracle) gid=200(oinstall)
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>Has anyone done this before? Any feedback will be appreciated.
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>Thanks
>Amir
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