Re: Oracle 7 and UNIX permissions - Help

Elizabeth,

Did you run $ORACLE_HOME/install/root.sh ??

This is a script that must be run as root which, among otherthings, sets permissions on the oracle executable etc.

Regards,
Chas.

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Chas. Dye
Oracle Database Administrator
Charles_Dye_at_krinfo.com

In article <31625999.1147273_at_emirates.net.ae>, aguidoum_at_emirates.net.ae (Ali Guidoum) writes:


> On 29 Mar 1996 13:58:07 -0800, bagley_at_zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Elizabeth


> Bagley) wrote:

> 

> >I have an Oracle 7 system running under Solaris, but have been unable

> >to make the databases available to any user on the machine other than

> >"oracle", the software owner.  As suggested in the install docs, the

> >files in the dbs directory are 640 and owned by "oracle" with a group

> >ownership of "dba".

> >

> >When I temporarily added my UNIX login to the group "dba" and changed the

> >permissions of the files in the dbs directory to 660, I found that I _was_ 

> >able to access the databases.  I'm pretty sure this isn't the way to go,

> >since I don't want for everyone to have "dba" access....