Help w/starting rdbms with non-oracle account

 Can anyone tell me what I have to do to allow a user to start up an  oracle database. The user has dba database privledges and is assigned  to the dba group in unix.  

 Currently I can only start the database up by using the Oracle account.  I am running on an HP 9000 using rdbms ver 7.0.13.

 I have read about the osdba and osoper roles but don't understand how  to implement them.

 Can someone help ???  

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