RE: Best Practices for Oracle on Windows

Well, obviously I'm not Niall :)
But, yes you can create it manually and it'll perform the same way as when created by Universal Installer.

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mohammad Rafiq Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:04 PM To: niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com
Cc: Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Best Practices for Oracle on Windows

Niall,
can we create ORA_DBA group manually(if not created during installation or removed afterward) and will it allow member of that group to connect as SYSDBA without SYS password? Regards
Rafiq

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:27:20 +0000, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:00:16 -0500, Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us
> <Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am looking for some best practice guidelines for assigning
administrator
> > privilege for Oracle on Windows. I'm coming from a UNIX
environment, where
> > oracle binaries and datafiles and whatnot are all owned by oracle.
Root
> > things that need to be done are done from another account that is in
the
> > root wheel, and done through deliberate actions as needed.
>
> In terms of *installing* the Oracle software, you should use an
> account with local administrator privileges for this (doesn't have to
> be a domain administrator). That doesn't mean that the dba needs to
> have administrative access to the machine (though I do on all the
> database machines in our place). Oracle installation creates an OS
> group ORA_DBA which is equivalent to the dba group on Unix. DBA
> Accounts should be placed in this group. (You can also create a group
> ORA_<SID>_DBA just to restrict them to particular databases).
>
> I'd strongly recommend that you create a domain group (or groups
> depending on how many types of dba you have) that you place dba users
> domain accounts in. Then you can assign the domain group to the local
> dba group on relevant boxes. Then you can audit who does what since
> the dbas all should use their own accounts to do their administration.
>
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
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