Re: Oracle in AIX question

Sherman H. wrote:

> I was thinking of removing some unnecessary user accounts in the AIX such as
> guest, uucp, nobody, etc. However, the system admin indicated that they
> need the guest account is required as standard installation for Oracle as
> first contact to retrieve further authentication. The configuration is like
> GUEST_USER_PWD = guest/guest.
>
> I feel for security reason this is not a good idea. However, can I suggest
> other option to replace this in Oracle?

Get another UNIX SA or send them to an Oracle DBA class.

The only thing Oracle requires is two groups, usually OINSTALL and DBA and one UNIX user account, usually ORACLE.

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