RE: oracle and grid accounts

We have always run both Grid/CRS and RDBMS from the same account and have never had any issues. It is normally required to have separate accounts if you have implemented segregation of duties where different groups are responsible for maintain these two stacks.

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Chris Grabowy Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 8:47 PM
To: 'ORACLE-L' <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: oracle and grid accounts

A DBA is pushing to eliminate the grid account from future installs.

So the Oracle database software and the Oracle Grid software would be installed under the oracle account.

The justification is that we shouldn’t have to switch between the oracle and grid accounts to do whatever commands needed. We can simply execute a script to “switch the environment”.

I came across the Oracle recommendation in the documentation which is to have an oracle account and a grid account.

I am wondering if anyone is aware of any technical limitation?

TIA Oracle 12.1.0.2
RHEL 7.3 Chris Grabowy

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