Re: oracle and his primary group : oinstall or dba

From: Marc Thomas <admin_at_prismatic-effulgence.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:08:00 -0000
Message-ID: <aqbstu$uoa$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>

Hi,
Basically, think of oinstall as the owner of the Oracle files (i.e. everything under $ORACLE_HOME) and probably the oraInventory as well.

The dba group contains all the unix users who can connect to the database as "/ as sysdba" - so you can think of the dba group as the Oracle database administrators list.

HTH
Marc

"Fleury Marcel" <marcel.fleury_at_bluewin.ch> wrote in message news:f18358b2.0211060702.6c96f971_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
> Oracle recommands to have oinstall as primary group for oracle account.
> Why not using dba as primary group ?
> What are the benefit to use oinstall instead of dba ?
>
> Thank you for your advices.
>
> Marcel
Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 14:08:00 CST