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Does the EM 12c agent install user *have* to be a member of the oinstall group?

edited Aug 19, 2015 10:20AM in Enterprise Manager Generic (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered ✓

Does the EM 12c agent install user have to be a member of the oinstall group in order to monitor Oracle Databases/RAC/GI?

For example, our Oracle Database homes are owned by "oracle:oinstall" and the central inventory "inst_group" is "oinstall".

If we create an EM agent install user such as "emagent:oinstall" then it can access the central inventory but this emagent user would also be able to modify any other group-writable files belonging to the oinstall group. This is problematic for us from a security perspective.

So I am asking if it is possible (and supported!) to create the EM agent install user with a totally different primary group (such as "emagent:emagent"), and thus have an EM agent user that is *not* a member of the oinstall group?

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