Re: system privileged functions

In article <1993Jun15.115346.17098_at_statoil.no>, oracle_at_ddb.be.statoil.no (Oracle ) wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Why does sqldba responds 'ORA-01031: insufficient privileges'
> when the root user is trying to do sqldba shutdown or connect internal,
> even if the root is a proper member of group dba?
> (/etc/group:
> dba:*:101:root,oracle,dba1,dba2)
> It works fine for the users oracle, dba1 and dba2.
> It also works fine for additional users added to the group dba.
>
> (By the way, I'm running Oracle 6.0.36.5.1 on a Sun SPARC 10)

IÕm having the exact same problem on a SPARC 10. And we just upgraded to this SPARC 10 from a Sun 4 which did not have this problem!

I opened a tar with Oracle, but they did not have an answer.

-Devan

                             
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