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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS need setUID root?  Informix?
Keywords: Unix, Security
Message-ID: <552.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 28 Nov 89 07:59:30 GMT
References: <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <1989Nov24.092221.15741@agsm.ucla.edu> <1023@maxim.erbe.se> <129@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca>
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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Oracle has two suid programs:

- One, suid to the oracle user (not root), which is the oracle kernel itself,
  and the suid is primarily done to protect the database files from unautho-
  rized access.

- One, suid to root, shipped as source, which is only used to increase ulimit.
  If your system has other means of doing so, you don't need it.
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