Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted?

From: Charles T. Smith <cts.private_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:19 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2007.06.01.20.54.17.297560@yahoo.com>

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:35:46 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:

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> Charles T. Smith wrote:

>> On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:18:41 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:
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>>> Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>>> I have installed oracle 10g on solaris 10.  In order to get started, I
>>>> want to run sqlplus.  That's in
>>>> /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/Db_1/bin - but it turns out that
>>>> all of product, 10.2.0, Db_1 have permissions disabled for users (e.g.
>>>> drwxrwx---, with group oinstall).
>>>>
>>>> Did I not finish the installation properly?  Or am I supposed to
>>>> enable the permissions manually?  Does anybody know how to use
>>>> sqlplus?
>>> Make the user(s) member of the secondary install group; on default
>>> installs, that is the same as the primary group for the installation
>>> user. Defaults are oracle for installation user, oinstall as single
>>> group, osoper and osdba when using two groups. In the latter case, your
>>> users should be member of osoper group

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>> Right, I could put everybody in oinstall. But somehow that doesn't seem
>> right to me.
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> Then, perform a client install.

oh! Is that the explanation? I've installed the server, but in order to have non-oinstall users use it, I need to also install the client?

Where is the client? I don't find it on www.oracle.com - except something for linux - but I'm running solaris. Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 15:54:19 CDT