[SunHELP] su question

Mike sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Sep 28 05:27:59 CDT 2001


I was going to suggest just that. Set group permissions rather than owner
permissions.

Mike

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Will Hayes wrote:

> The oracle user ID has to be the file owner in most cases.  It also makes
> maintenance of those files a little easier when one user owns everything.  I
> think the original poster was referring to DBAs as "oracle users".
> 
> David, you should be able to get around the ftp/password problem by setting
> up group membership and group write permissions on whatever directories need
> to be accessed through ftp.  If a DBA is putting a file (allowed through
> group privileges), they can chown it to oracle.  If they are getting a file,
> then those same group privileges should allow them access to the appropriate
> directories.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Will
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:22 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] su question
> 
> 
> Why do the oracle users need to su to oracle? Is this the EUID of the server
> process? If you want to place restrictions on these users when they are
> su'ed to oracle, sudo may have some holes. If you could, elaborate more on
> your needs and I might be able to give you some pointers :)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herman, David" <David.Herman at Nextel.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:58 PM
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] su question
> 
> 
> > With a sudoers file - we're going to that now, blast it! Although we still
> > need the password to ftp...
> >
> > David Herman, Oracle DBA
> >
> > =======
> > I need to have my oracle users login with there id then su to oracle,
> > currently user can login directly as oracle. How can I make this happen
> > ?
> >
> > Thanks
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