Re: OS Authentification, LDAP and Oracle installation

On 3 Jul 2004 02:25:35 -0700, ydias_at_hotmail.com (dias) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On a HP box, all users are authenticated against LDAP (Sun ONE
>Directory Server 5.2 on the same box). There are no entries in
>/etc/passwd or /etc/group.
>
>I was asked if it's possible to install Oracle 9ir2 on this box
>without creating an oracle user and a dba group in this box and use
>LDAP authentification ?
>
>Thanks

Not likely. Oracle also can't properly live together with NIS. The reason for this is quite obvious: all files on Unix have an owner and a group identification. You see this in the form of text. What is stored, however, is the UID of the user Oracle, and the GID of the dba group. On Nis, if the UID of Oracle differs from the local UID, you are in big trouble.
Also please consider: do you think Oracle can actually run when the LDAP server isn't available? The idea of wanting to install Oracle without a local account just doesn't make sense (and also it is not described in the installation manuals)

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA