Executing Deployment Procedures using SUDO/Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) (Doc ID 603108.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 19, 2022

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 10.2.0.5 to 11.1.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 11.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

This document explains on how:

To use Privilege Propagation Provider (PDP) with Deployment Procedures
To configure Deployment Procedures to supports the use of SUDO / Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)
To setup authentication modules for use with Deployment Procedures for SUDO/PAM

Scope

In some data centers DBA's are required to login with their Operating System (OS) account and then use authentication modules like SUDO, pbrun, suexec, etc. to switch to Oracle account or Oracle Home owner account to carry out the tasks like Provisioning and Patching.