[vox-tech] User with root privileges

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Fri 21 Nov 03,  9:56 AM, Richard Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> said:
> > 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.
 
and that's _exactly_ the right thing to do!

that's how you're supposed to install software!

pete


> 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".
> 
> 
> Sláinte,
> Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K)
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