Re: oracle and grid accounts

Having worked in both types of environments, I have found no advantage to separating them. Typically the server is entirely devoted to oracle, and even when a separation of duties is intended, the DBA usually takes over where root access is no longer required, which pretty well eliminates the whole point of the separation.

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> On Mar 20, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Chris Grabowy <cgrabowy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> A DBA is pushing to eliminate the grid account from future installs.
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> So the Oracle database software and the Oracle Grid software would be installed under the oracle account.
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> 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”.
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> I came across the Oracle recommendation in the documentation which is to have an oracle account and a grid account.
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> I am wondering if anyone is aware of any technical limitation?
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> TIA
>
> Oracle 12.1.0.2
> RHEL 7.3
>
> Chris Grabowy

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