Re: permissions on $ORACLE

From: John Fieber <jfieber_at_indiana.edu>
Date: 13 May 1999 15:26:15 GMT
Message-ID: <7hequn$2sq$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu>

In article <NCp_2.104$o5.1343_at_grover.nit.gwu.edu>,

Sweth Chandramouli (sweth+oracle-misc_at_sweth.gwu.edu) writes:

> so nothing in ?/bin is suid or sgid? the oracle support people
> seemed pretty adamant that the oracle binary itself, at least, needed to
> be suid, and preferably suid/sgid; i can't get the system to work if it
> isn't, myself.

Some local client connection protocols don't work (eg BEQ), but if you don't need them I have not (yet) found any harm in removing suid/sgid bits.

-john Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 10:26:15 CDT

Re: permissions on $ORACLE_HOME/bin