Administrative Groups and Users on Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Database Appliance Web Console deployment creates operating system groups and users whose members are granted system administration privileges on the appliance.

During configuration, two administrative accounts are created for Oracle Database Appliance: the user grid, with a user ID (UID) of 1001, and the user oracle, with a UID of 1000. The user grid is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner. The user oracle is the Oracle Database installation owner, and the owner of all Oracle Database homes (Oracle homes). By default, these users are members of operating system groups whose members are granted privileges to start up and administer Oracle Database and Oracle Automatic Storage Management.

The following table describes the Oracle system privileges groups, and information about the operating system authentication groups:


Table 6-1 Operating System Groups and Users on Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle System Privileges Group Name Group ID (GID) grid is a member oracle is a member

Oracle Inventory group (OINSTALL)

oinstall

1001

yes (primary group)

yes (primary group

OSOPER for dbaoper group

dbaoper

1002

yes

yes

OSDBA group

dba

1003

no

yes

OSASM Group for Oracle ASM

asmadmin

1004

yes

no

OSOPER for ASM group

asmoper

1005

yes

no

OSDBA for ASM group

asmdba

1006

yes

yes


If you create an initial database during deployment, then the password for the SYS and SYSTEM users is the Master Password that you set in the Web Console. Change this password for both users as soon as possible after configuration to prevent unauthorized access to your database using these privileged accounts.