As the OP, I appreciate your explanation. It does make it clearer to me.
"Ed Stevens" <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:59:33 +0100, Frank <fbortel_at_nescape.net> wrote:
>
> >Ed Stevens wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >So? ...making you in fact a user with local administrative rights.
> >That what it boils down to - you NEED local administrative rights!
> >
> >As stated by Sybrand and the docu
>
> Yes, but I wasn't sure the distinction was clear to the OP. Don't
> know about you, but I've known people who think logging on "as
> administrator" means using a specific account. It wasn't clear to me
> that the OP understood, or, if he didn't understand, that Sybrand's
> response clarified. So, just in case there *was* some
> misunderstanding, I was simply trying to draw a clearer picture.
Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 15:50:06 CST
