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Hello everyone, Thanks to all of you who help us newbies out. I'm struggling a bit learning linux, but I already like it more than windows. Anyway, my question is this. I'm attempting to install oracle on my red hat 9 box. I'm creating the Oracle user accounts like this logged in as root:
Originally posted by homey I'm not sure why you are using both the -g and -G features but on the last one you have -G dba oracle but the group which you made is only called dba
Please refer to man useradd,
he is trying to create a user oracle in group oinstall and also be a member of group dba.
my /etc/group has the following for the oracle user and the dba and oinstall groups
dba:x:513racle
oinstall:x:514:
I went and used the graphical tool to try and see if it looked fine, and as far as I can see the oracle user was created with the primary group being oinstall and secondary group being dba. I just found that odd, wasn't expecting to see that message.
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