Re: AIX 10g/11 and Oracle DBA logins

Expensive move.... I'd rather go 64-bit Linux on Intel myself.Get more machine at much more attractive price and just a stable IMHO.

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• Original Message ---- From: S. Anthony Sequeira <tony_at_sequeira.org.uk> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:24:49 PM Subject: Re: AIX 10g/11 and Oracle DBA logins

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:49 -0500, DIANNA GIBBS wrote:
> We are moving all of our instances to AIX from Windows and VMS.

Congratulations. It's a good move.

> Since I have been the only DBA on the new AIX servers, I have been
> using the oracle OS user login. Now that we are moving into production,
> we have several DBAs and would like all of us to log in using our specific username
> and su to oracle user or be able to do anything needed as if we were the
> oracle user. We are currently able to do this on Windows and VMS.

[...]

sudo is the answer.

> Any direction or information appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Dianna G.

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that's a Kludge(TM)
It Works(tm)
AIX works(TM)
no it doesn't
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