Re: What system privs do I need to do my DBA thing on an SGI Irix box?

As long as you have a normal oracle install (user oracle group dba, and oracle is by default in the group dba, general protection for Oracle files is 4755 and a few executables have the setuid bit on), you won't need any special privileges.
You may need to have access to any /usr/sbin or /sbin directories though, if setting up file systems and startup/shutdown procedures is left to you.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Richard Hollingsworth <william.hollingsworth_at_hsv.boeing.com> wrote in message news:3888D3DF.7565E806_at_hsv.boeing.com...
> Hi folks. Thanks for reading this.
>
> I'm new to UNIX and have been fiven the taks of being the DBA for this
> program. We are using Oracle 8.0.5 Enterprise Edition, and the Oracle
> Web Application Server on the UNIX box. Everything else I will do from
> ny NT 4.0 box.
>
> Ok. The question is, what UNIX system privs do I need to do my DBA
> stuff like start and stop instances, create databases, and add and
> remove users?
>
> Reason for asking is, here at Boeing, we have a group of System Admins
> who do NOT like giving out system privs, they want to do anything that
> requires system privs.
>
> I know you have to have certain system privs to do these tasks on NT,
> and I assume you need similar privs on a UNIX box.
>
> So, can someone please tell me what privs I need to do my job so I can
> justify it to the sys admins?
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Richard Hollingsworth
> Boeing
Received on Fri Jan 21 2000 - 16:33:02 CST