Re: Privileges required to admin Oracle on NT

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:19:32 -0500, "Doug Olson" <olson283_at_tc.umn.edu> wrote:

>I would like to here arguments as to why NT administrator privileges are
>required to administrator Oracle databases on NT. (Yes, I'm having to
>justify the need for these privileges.)
>
>I'm investigating the feasibility of using OEM to do the job, but I don't
>know OEM very well yet. OEM seems nice enough when using the tools like
>Schema Manager, Storage Manager, etc. But its harder for me to envision
>doing exports, cold backups, file cleanup, software installation, etc. from
>a remote OEM client.
>
>Being more adept on UNIX, I'm more comfortable scripting the things I need
>done. While I don't need "administrator" privileges to do these things on
>UNIX, it seems that the same is not true on NT.
>
>--Doug
>

Quite simple...
You'll need them at least on the server, or it won't run, as per the installation and user guide. Oracle needs to be installed under an account with administrative privileges ie in the administrators group.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Wed Apr 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT