Re: file perms issue on linux install

From: Eberhard Niendorf <eberhard.niendorf_schrott_at_t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:55:27 +0100
Message-ID: <eptk3v$ek$00$1@news.t-online.com>

kcboyes_at_gmail.com wrote:

> I've just installed Oracle 10gR2 on my redhat-based linux machine and
> seem
> to have a problem with file permissions. My ORACLE_BASE=/clientdata/
> oracle
> and here is the listing of that directory:
>
> [kboyes_at_uberdev4 oracle]$ ls -al
> total 56
> drwxrwxr-x 7 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 .
> drwxrwxr-x+ 21 root root 4096 Jan 31 12:47 ..
> drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 admin
> drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:32 flash_recovery_area
> drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:31 oradata
> drwxrwx--- 6 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:52 oraInventory
> drwxrwx--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 31 13:28 product
>
>
> I would have expected product to be r-w for other since the way it is
> now, ordinary users can't run things like sqlplus.
>
> It doesn't make sense that ordinary users would need to be in the
> oinstall group.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank,
> Kevin.

This is a new security feature on all Unix-OS... It's documented in the install manuals and You only need to execute a script as follows: sh $ORACLE_HOME/install/changePerm.sh

Eberhard Niendorf Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 14:55:27 CST