Linux User Accounts

This section provides information about Linux user accounts that are provisioned on Oracle Database Classic Cloud Service.

Every Database Classic Cloud Service compute node is provisioned with the following operating system user accounts.

User	Description
opc	The system administrator account you use with the sudo command to perform operations that require root-user access.
oracle	The Oracle Database administrator account you use to access the system and perform non-root database administration tasks. A home directory, /home/oracle, is created for this user. This user cannot use the sudo command to perform operations that require root-user access.
root	The root administrator for the system. You do not have direct access to this account. To perform operations that require root-user access, use the sudo command as the opc user.

The following environment variables are created for the opc and oracle users.

Variable	Description
HOME	The home directory of the user, either /home/opc or /home/oracle.
HOSTNAME	The host name of the compute node.
LANG	The system language, en_US.UTF-8.
OH	Short form for ORACLE_HOME.
ORACLE_HOME	The Oracle Database home directory: Oracle Database 18c: /u01/app/oracle/product/18.0.0/dbhome_1 Oracle Database 12c Release 2: /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1 Oracle Database 12c Release 1: /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1 Oracle Database 11g Release 2: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
ORACLE_SID	The database system identifier (SID) provided during the database deployment creation process.
PATH	The paths to search for executables; set to include: /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin $ORACLE_HOME/bin $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch $HOME
SHELL	The default shell, /bin/bash.
USER	The user name, either opc or oracle.