RE: RE: change unix user when running external procedure

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, John Dunn wrote:

> Apparently the way to do this is to set up a seperate external procedure
> listener to run as the appropriate user.
>
> Unfortunately utl_file still seems to run as oracle
>
> John

John,

If you are having problems with access to files created by Oracle via UTL_FILE, there is a simple workaround, at least for unix systems.

Setting the SGID bit on a directory will cause all files created in that directory to have the same group as the directory, regardless of who creates it.

Here's how I've set this up in the past.

Create a directory for the UTL_FILE files.

  mkdir /tmp/utlfile

Either use the group of the desired user, or create a new group and and that use to it. Then change the group on that directory, and set the SGID bit.

  chgrp mygrp /tmp/utlfile
  chmod g+s /tmp/utlfile

All files created in /tmp/utlfile will have a group of 'mygrp', regardless of the group of the creator.

Jared

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