file perms issue on linux install

From: <kcboyes_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 Feb 2007 08:38:47 -0800
Message-ID: <1170347927.688107.178700@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>

I've just installed Oracle 10gR2 on my redhat-based linux machine and seem
to have a problem with file permissions. My ORACLE_BASE=/clientdata/ oracle
and here is the listing of that directory:

[kboyes_at_uberdev4 oracle]$ ls -al
total 56

drwxrwxr-x   7 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 21 root   root     4096 Jan 31 12:47 ..
drwxr-x---   3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 admin
drwxr-x---   3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:32 flash_recovery_area
drwxr-x---   3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 oradata
drwxrwx---   6 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:52 oraInventory
drwxrwx---   3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:28 product

I would have expected product to be r-w for other since the way it is now, ordinary users can't run things like sqlplus.

It doesn't make sense that ordinary users would need to be in the oinstall group.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank,
Kevin. Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 10:38:47 CST