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ownership of shadow server process

From: Vsevolod Afanassiev <vafanassiev_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 12 Oct 2005 00:13:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1129101215.705907.135610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>


Very simple question: what UNIX user owns shadow server process for direct (i.e. non-listener) connections? Oracle user or application user?
Let's say we have Oracle software installed as user "oracle:dba". Background processes (pmon, smon, dbwr, etc) of database ORACLE_SID=PROD
are running as UNIX user "oracle". We also have application running on the same server as UNIX user "app". When this application connects to Oracle directly (through Bequeath) and Oracle creates shadow server processes "oraclePROD" what user these processes will be running under? "oracle" or "app"? I thought it would be "oracle", but I am seeing different results on different UNIXes: on Tru64 it is "oracle" while on HP-UX it is "app". Any idea why? Received on Wed Oct 12 2005 - 02:13:35 CDT

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