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IBM Security Guardium STAP running su oracle command

Question & Answer


Question

Why does operating system monitoring show user root running the su -oracle command when IBM Security Guardium STAP is started?

Answer

STAP will run su -oracle when STAP is started in order to use the Discovery feature to discover Oracle databases

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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