Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted?
From: Charles T. Smith <cts.private_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:54:36 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2007.06.04.16.54.33.987374_at_yahoo.com>
>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:
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>> >> 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 onwww.oracle.com- except
>> >> something for linux - but I'm running solaris.
>>
>> > There's the possibility to install "client only" from every server CD
>> > I've seen so far (which did not include Solaris...) It's still a bold
>> > 200MB or something like that.
>>
>> I still think there's something fishy here. I can use sqlplus from the
>> account where oracle is loaded, I just can't use it from other accounts
>> - without manually intervening. Considering the level of
>> professionalism that oracle apparently aspires to, I suspect this would
>> be a bug ... if it weren't an operator error.
>>
>> > And of course there's this;
>> >http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/inde...
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>> No, that's even more of the same. I want to use what's already there.
>> When you first mentioned client install, I thought it might just add a
>> different configuration. But a whole new 20 meg. or db-less install...
>> no, I don't think that's it.
>>
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>> > - --
>> > Regards,
>> > Frank van Bortel
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:54:36 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2007.06.04.16.54.33.987374_at_yahoo.com>
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:14:08 -0700, sybrandb wrote:
> On Jun 4, 11:36 am, "Charles T. Smith" <cts.priv..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:
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>> > Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>
>> >> 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 onwww.oracle.com- except
>> >> something for linux - but I'm running solaris.
>>
>> > There's the possibility to install "client only" from every server CD
>> > I've seen so far (which did not include Solaris...) It's still a bold
>> > 200MB or something like that.
>>
>> I still think there's something fishy here. I can use sqlplus from the
>> account where oracle is loaded, I just can't use it from other accounts
>> - without manually intervening. Considering the level of
>> professionalism that oracle apparently aspires to, I suspect this would
>> be a bug ... if it weren't an operator error.
>>
>> > And of course there's this;
>> >http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/inde...
>>
>> No, that's even more of the same. I want to use what's already there.
>> When you first mentioned client install, I thought it might just add a
>> different configuration. But a whole new 20 meg. or db-less install...
>> no, I don't think that's it.
>>
>>
>>
>> > - --
>> > Regards,
>> > Frank van Bortel
>>
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> > Most likely you just either didn't read the installation instructions at > all and/or didn't follow them up to the letter. Normal server > installations don't need an extra client. PERIOD On normal server > installations anyone can connect to Oracle, provided a) the setuid bit of > several executables has been set b) $ORACLE_HOME/bin is in your $PATH > c) you have access to a tnsnames.ora > > Assuming this is a bug is just.. ahem.. plain ridiculous.
[Quoted] It would indeed be a bug if I have to reinstall after the installation process told me that it completed successfully. I suggest *that* is irrefutable and therefore makes your "ridiculous" exclaimation ... an empty claim. Received on Mon Jun 04 2007 - 18:54:36 CEST