Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

File and Process Ownership on Unix Systems

Ownership of installed Directory Server Enterprise Edition elements depends on that software distribution that you have installed. Assuming install-user is the user who runs unzip command and instance-owner is the user who creates a server instance, the ownership assignment table looks like the following:

Installed Directory Server Enterprise Edition Elements	Ownership
Installed Directory Server Enterprise Edition Elements	Zip	Native
Software files	`install-user`	root
Data files - Administrative files	`install-user`	root or `noaccess`
Data files - Server instances	`instance-owner`	`instance-owner`
Processes - `ns-slapd` daemon	`instance-owner`	`instance-owner`
Processes - Common Agent Container daemon	`install-user`	root
Processes - Application Server daemon	`install-user`	root or `noaccess`
Processes - Directory Service Control Center Registry daemon	`install-user`	`noaccess`

For files and processes related to the server instance, ownership can be freely chosen (instance-owner), no matter which distribution (ZIP or native) is used. Each server instance may have a different owner.

For all other files, ownership must be assigned as follows:

Zip distribution: To a single user (install-user)
Native distribution: To root or noaccess