is the setuid permission on the executable, this is sometimes lost on chown
and chgrp and without it you are stuffed
"Andrew" <acjunk2_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c7603e9b.0211221833.7de0d1b3_at_posting.google.com...
> I did the following on Linux:
> 1) standard install with user oracle a member of oinstall, sysdba, and
> sysoper.
> 2) I wanted to clean this up, and made oracle a member of a new group
> called oracle.
> 3) Removed oracle's membership in oinstall, sysdba, sysoper groups.
> 4) Then I changed everything in $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_BASE to be a
> member of oracle:oracle.
>
> Now I can't start the database!!! When I do:
> sqlplus /nolog
> conn / as sysdba
>
> I get:
>
> SQL> conn / as sysdba
> ERROR:
> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
>
> Anyone know what I need to do to fix this problem? Regenerate the
> orapw file? chown/chgrp any other hidden files?
>
> Thanks!
> Andrew
Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 13:08:31 CST
