Re: Changing ownership of Oracle database installation

From: terryg8 <trg_at_ibm.net>
Date: 1997/09/24
Message-ID: <3429B869.53@ibm.net>#1/1

speed_at_racer.cartoon.spam.address wrote:
>
> Given an Oracle installation that was installed as owner=Oracle,
> group=dba, what steps are necessary in order to change the ownership of
> the installation to an owner other than Oracle?
>
> Is it as simple as a 'chown -R' on the installation tree?
>
> The reason I want to do this is to "localize" the Oracle installation
> thus eliminating the need for multiple installations to use the same
> oracle login ID.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

We run several database all owned by oracle, as is the norm. Just curious, what problems are you having with multiple instances using the same oracle login? Perhaps there is a simple way to alleviate the problems.

Cheers,
Terry Received on Wed Sep 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT