Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

To create the Oracle user and groups on all nodes in the cluster

1. From the SF Oracle RAC installer menu, enter 1 to select the option Create Oracle Users and Groups.
2. Provide the following information for creating the Oracle user and groups: user name, group name, user ID, group ID, and the full path of the Oracle user home directory.

   The user ID and group ID must not be in use on any node in the cluster. The installer suggests unused values, which you may use or change as required. The configuration program assigns the same values on all the nodes.

   Note:

   If you are configuring GCO, then the user IDs and group IDs of all nodes on both the primary and secondary clusters must be the same. While configuring the user ID and group ID values on the secondary site, make sure that they are identical to the values used at the primary site.

   Enter Oracle UNIX user name: [b] grid
   Enter Oracle user's ID (numerical):  [b] (1168)
   Enter Oracle UNIX group name: [b] (oinstall)
   Enter Oracle group's ID (numerical):  [b] (1000) 
   Enter absolute path of Oracle user's Home directory: [b] /home/grid

3. Enter the information for the secondary group.

   Do you want to create a secondary group 
   for Oracle user? [y,n,q,b,?] (n) y
   Enter Oracle UNIX group name:  [b] (dba, oper etc.) 
   Enter Oracle group's ID (numerical): [b] (1996) 
   
       Creating secondary group dba for 
   				Oracle user oracle on sys1 ..... Done
       Creating secondary group dba for 
   				Oracle user oracle on sys2 ..... Done
   Do you want to create another secondary group 
   for Oracle user? [y,n,q,b,?] (n) 

4. Create a password for the oracle user on each node.

   # passwd oracle

   For Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 and later versions: Create a password for the grid user on each node.

   # passwd grid

5. Set up passwordless SSH as the oracle/grid user to install Oracle RAC binaries.

   For instructions, see the appendix Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications in this document.