Hi Sweth,
I just checked my $ORACLE_HOME and everything in it is owned by the
Oracle user in group dba. Permissions are all 755. The same is true of my
$ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.
regards
Jerry Gitomer
Sweth Chandramouli wrote in message ...
> i just accidentally ran a chown -R oracle:dba on my $ORACLE_HOME
>directory as the oracle user, instead of as root; chown, being the nice
>security-conscious app that it is, immediately turned off the suid bit
>on all files under $ORACLE_HOME. i'm on hold with oracle support right
>now (call time: 1 hour, 13 minutes and counting...), and am getting some
>less than helpful answers from them. for one thing, they keep alternating
>between whether bin/oracle should be chmod-ed to 4755 or 6751; after my
>mistaken chown, it was left as 0755, and chown only resets the suid bit,
>which to me says that the old permission was 4751. does anyone know what
>the "right" permissions should be?
> another problem that i have is that, while looking at the perms
>in bin, i noticed that bin/coraenv is 0777. the tech at oracle support
>insists that this is correct, but i can't believe that. does anoyone know
>of a good reason to _not_ change the permissions on that script to 0751?
>
> well, the tech just got back to me... according to him, my only
>options are to a) backup my init<SID>.ora, config<SID>.ora, tnsnames.ora,
and
>listener.ora files, and then reinstall, or b) chmod -R 4700 ${ORACLE_HOME}
>and then chmod 6751 bin/oracle. the latter makes absolutely no sense to
>me, especially since it will prevent anyone other than the oracle user from
>accessing tools like sqlplus and svrmgrl, so i will probably have to end up
>doing the former. does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> tia,
> sweth.
>
>--
>Sweth Chandramouli
>IS Coordinator, The George Washington University
><sweth_at_gwu.edu> / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F)
>*
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 08:43:55 CDT
