topic Re: UID in Operating System - HP-UX

UID

Meirone Luca — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:27:37 GMT

I wanna change the ID of 2 users, one of this is ORACLE, is it possible to do that?
how?
find / -user ID -exec chown ID2 {} \;
it's possible to do that on line for oracle UID?
thanks for your consult!
ciao Luca

Re: UID

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:37:22 GMT

Hi:

Given that one of the users represents a database, I would *not* do this "online". Wait until there are no processes running so that you get an atomic change of all the user's files. That is, *all* files and processes have a consistent uid at any point in time.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: UID

Stefan Farrelly — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:12:33 GMT

Yes you can change them, but James is right, there is no way I would do this while the system/oracle is in use. And I would not change Oracle's uid unless absolutely necessary, ive seen enough problems caused by this because Oracle does all sorts of strange things with permissions/ownership and after changing stuff we get message errors and all sorts of strange behaviour.