Re: oracle and grid accounts

Out of curiosity, in regard to patches, is either setup more intuitive or more complicated? I could see how one user that owns everything could be more intuitive OR more confusing so I'm curious what you guys think.

Chris Taylor

On Mar 21, 2017 7:41 AM, "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> That's my experience as well.
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Chris Grabowy <cgrabowy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>> RHEL 7.3
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>>
>> Chris Grabowy
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>>
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