Setting External Jobs Ownership for HP-UX Installations

On HP-UX platforms only, set external jobs ownership to a low-privilege user.

Complete the following procedure to set external jobs ownership to the low-privilege user extjob:

Log in as root.
Go to the Oracle Database Oracle home directory:
```
# cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/
```
Open externaljob.ora with a text editor, and find the parameters run_userand run_group.
Modify externaljob.ora only as root.
Set run_user to the external jobs user (extjob), and set run_group to a low-privileged group, such as other, for example:
```
run_user=extproc
run_group=other
```
Save the file.

Parent topic: Required Postinstallation Tasks