Re: OS Authentification, LDAP and Oracle installation

Thanks Sybrand

You are right, this configuration is not discribed in Oracle documenation. I'll try on a test machine and give keep you informed.

Dias

Sybrand Bakker <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl> wrote in message news:<5bcde0ljg2it72pkol9scit6cgqbacj3uc_at_4ax.com>...
> 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)
Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 08:42:26 CDT