That depends on how much system level work the DBA has to do.  If the SA's are good and understand Oracle RDBMS system requirements then no the DBA can do without root.  They do need access to the Oracle related file systems, /tmp, and the application filesystems.

Rodd

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:18, Dave Morgan wrote:
The DBA needs root privileges on the server>

This is one of my interview questions.

Dave

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