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Nope, never set it up. Always used Oracle. Been doing it that way
since 1990 haven't heard a good reason to change. Of course, my DB
servers don't have user accounts on them, all developer, user
connections are over the network.
On 10/6/06, Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> oinstall group (hopefully not a stupid question)I've always used oracle
> group dba to install. But I wonder the same thing everytime I do a new
> installation. I always figured it was for the separation of those in the dba
> group from the oracle owner. Many people can startup/shutdown database as
> long as they are in the dba group, but only oracle:oinstall can go in and
> mess with binaries/files and such.
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-- "An armed society is a polite society." R. Heinlein -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Oct 06 2006 - 15:12:46 CDT
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