Re: Domain account or local account

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:51:39 +0100, Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 8:55:01 +0100, Ronald Rood <devnull_at_ronr.nl>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 8:26:09 +0100, Jack Wang wrote
>>(in message <ls%sb.52570$Ws6.30191_at_edtnps84>):
>>
>>> I understand that installing Oracle on Windows needs Administrator
>>> privilege. Though the docs doesn't mention if it can be installed under a
>>> domain account with local Administrator group privilege?
>>
>>You can.
>
>The docs mention using the *local adminstrator*. Don't see any reason
>to deliberately ignore the docs on this.

Well, there is the local user account 'Administrator', and then there is the local group 'Administrators', of which 'Administrator' is a default member. The Oracle9i Database Installation Guide Release 2 (9.2.0.1.0) for Windows says specifically "Log on as a member of the Administrators group to the computer on which to install Oracle components"

So, just to clarify, one does not *need* to log on as Administrator, but one *should* log on as a user who is a member of the local Administrators group. In our case, we have a domain group called "ORACLE_ADMINISTRATORS". The domain user accounts of all of the Oracle DBA's (all two of us!) are members of this group. When the sever team builds a new DB server, they add this domain group to the local Administrators group on the server. So when my partner or I install Oracle, we simply log on with our normal network account, and inherit all necessary admin authority. Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 15:02:45 CST