File owners

[dhanadba]

Hi
i have oracle application server 10g R2
having user oracle Group oinstall
this is oracle user only compiling all the forms in oracle Home ..

I want creating other user is called developers..same group
but the developers user ,don't compliing from Oracle Home .

Actually i want ,one file having two users ,but same group...its possible ?
please help me...


Dhana

[Jonathan183]

I think you need a common data area to which two users in the same group have access. The home area is not really configured for this type of thing because you would typically have private data on it. You can change owner information with chown, and change access rights with chmod.

man chown
man chmod

should provide you with the information you need to change the access rights.
If you have other users on the system and need to create a developer user group of something similar you should do this using the admin tool for your distro. Then add the users you want to that group.

[dhanadba]

thanks for reply..
don't change oracle user & oinstall group ,its not possible
just i add developer user for this group .i cann't access in oracle Home files..
is there any way to access?

[Jonathan183]

I'm not sure I understand ... or can help.
I assumed you have a linux server with an oracle application server running on it. I assume for that you have linux user accounts and home areas ... making file sharing a linux question. Creating a common area for users to access in linux should be possible. Sharing information in user home areas is also possible ... but not a solution I would recommend (see previous post). If the linux server is SUSE then YAST is the config tool to use to set groups etc.

If I have misunderstood ... please post back & make it clear my post does not help so others can step in and answer your question.

[dhanadba]

hi
Thanks
i installed oracle application server through oracle user..
oracle user only having full permission for this oracle software.
here
some oracle home files needed for developing application..
so all user (using ftp ) knowing oracle user password ..i want ,create other user..don't give oracle password for all user..only given this creating user,password only..but this user accessing oracle home files..thats all...


oracle password known everybody...so i will change ,but some file access needed...so what can i do ?any scripts ? any other user access the oracle home files only..?

[pavlo_7]

Check permissions on oracle home directory.
If you want to give group read and write access you can try:

chmod 775 /home/oracle

for read only (probably already set by default):

chmod 755  /home/oracle

and to deny access to others (except group), replace last 5 with 0:

chmod 770 /home/oracle

I think you would also need to use

umask 0002

in ftp server config, so that ftp users can create files with write permission for group.