[vox-tech] User with root privileges

[Richard Crawford]

> so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box.  he wants to install
> something.  i forget what it was.  oracle?  anyway.  he wants to do it
> from an account named "joeschmo", rather than "root".

I installed Oracle on a Solaris 9 box.  To do so I created a user for
Oracle, but nothing special had to be done beyond that.  At one point I
needed to su to root to run a single script as part of the installation
process, but that was it.

In this case the program is Arcserve, which is backup software.  I have
yet to look at the installation procedure, and it seems to need a "high
level user account".


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