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Setting administrative permissions

To allow database administrators to administer a database using Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, you are required to change some permission settings. You are asked during the installation process if you want to allow database administrators access to various functionality. If you did not make the permission changes during installation, you can do so at a later time.

The default settings at installation time for the /opt/VRTSdbed directory allow only the root login to access the directory.

 To allow the user "oracle" access to the /opt/VRTSdbed directory

Use the chown and chmod commands, as follows:

# chown oracle /opt/VRTSdbed
# chmod 500 /opt/VRTSdbed

 To allow users in the group "dba" access to the /opt/VRTSdbed directory

Use the chgrp and chmod commands, as follows:

# chgrp dba /opt/VRTSdbed
# chmod 550 /opt/VRTSdbed