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тАО10-25-2001 06:45 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:45 AM
This one should be easy for you, I just want your opinions. The DBA's in our shop say they need to have the root password. What are your thoughts?
Thanx.
Clara
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тАО10-25-2001 06:48 AM
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тАО10-25-2001 06:50 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:50 AM
Re: Root password
My answer is NO..
The DBA related tasks can sure be handled by by them with the proper permissions and groups and for the System admin tasks you are there to help them.
Ask them why they want the root password..? Inface you can give them restricted permission to do some of admin jobs. by restricted sam. (sam -r)
or you can use sudo utility and have control on their "system administartion"
-USA..
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тАО10-25-2001 06:52 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:52 AM
Re: Root password
If I were you I say no. What is there requirement? Why they need root accesss? You can setup sudo or super for it.
If it is small compan. and only few system I will do it. It it is big comp. and lots of different department handle by different persons I will not.
Sachin
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тАО10-25-2001 06:52 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:52 AM
Re: Root password
Also, it would help if you mentioned which database product they administer.
Hope this helps.
-Santosh
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тАО10-25-2001 06:53 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:53 AM
Re: Root password
The DBA position, and that of the root user, are trusted positions. It is almost impossible to subdivide the job specifications into roles where no one person can do 'too much' and still perform the role effectively in a commercial environment.
I'm not a DBA, I'm a sysadmin, so I don't know what their role entails that can't be got around by having their sysadmin do file system resizing and kernel tuning, but hey, I'm not the DB expert, Mike Henderson is supposed to be...
Cheers,
James
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тАО10-25-2001 06:55 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:55 AM
Re: Root password
Do NOT give the DBA's unlimited root access. If they screw something up inadvertantly, will they tell you EXACTLY what they did? Probably not. And guess who gets to figure out what happened? :)
Install sudo. You can set sudo up so that they can run only what they absolutely have to, and they don't have the root passwd.
The root passwd should be given to the abolute minimum number of people possible.
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тАО10-25-2001 06:57 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:57 AM
Re: Root password
The simple answer is NO. Most of the times they only need root access to run the root.sh script while installling oracle, you can set up sudo and give them access to run that script.
The best solution is sudo, rather than giving out root access
You can find out more about sudo from
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
-Regards
Ramesh
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тАО10-25-2001 06:57 AM
тАО10-25-2001 06:57 AM
Re: Root password
I don't provide my DBA's with a root password, either. I've got scripts they can use for things like pfs_mounts and beyond that, I'm happy to assist when they need root access.
Regards!
...JRF...
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тАО10-25-2001 06:58 AM
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