Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
If the oraInst.loc
file does not exist, then create the
Oracle Inventory group.
Members of the OINSTALL group are granted privileges to write to the Oracle
central inventory (oraInventory
), and other system privileges for
Oracle installation owner users.
An Oracle installation owner should always have the group you want to have
designated as the OINSTALL group (oinstall
) as its primary group.
Ensure that this group is available as the primary group for all planned Oracle software
installation owners. By default, if an oraInst.loc
file does not exist
and an Oracle central inventory (oraInventory
) is not identified, then
the installer designates the primary group of the installation owner running the
installation as the OINSTALL group.
Note:
For installations on Oracle Clusterware, group and user IDs must be identical on all nodes in the cluster. Ensure that the group and user IDs you want to use are available on each cluster member node, and confirm that the primary group for each Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation owner has the same name and group ID.The following example creates the oraInventory group
oinstall
, with the group ID number 54321.
# /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 54321 oinstall