Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted?

From: Charles T. Smith <cts.private_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:39:31 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2007.05.31.17.39.25.545372@yahoo.com>

On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:18:41 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:

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> Charles T. Smith wrote:

>> I have installed oracle 10g on solaris 10.  In order to get started, I
>> want to run sqlplus.  That's in
>> /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/Db_1/bin - but it turns out that all
>> of product, 10.2.0, Db_1 have permissions disabled for users (e.g.
>> drwxrwx---, with group oinstall).
>> 
>> Did I not finish the installation properly?  Or am I supposed to enable
>> the permissions manually?  Does anybody know how to use sqlplus?

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> Make the user(s) member of the secondary install group; on default
> installs, that is the same as the primary group for the installation user.
> Defaults are oracle for installation user, oinstall as single group,
> osoper and osdba when using two groups. In the latter case, your users
> should be member of osoper group

Right, I could put everybody in oinstall. But somehow that doesn't seem right to me. Received on Thu May 31 2007 - 12:39:31 CDT