Hi.
Reading the OP Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery manual, it states on page 80:
By default, you can use RMAN with the SYS account (as sysdba) without any configuration
required. Of course, that’s probably not the best account to use when you are doing production
backups. We recommend, before you use RMAN to do a backup, that you create a separate
account that is designated for RMAN backups
Has anyone done this? Is this just for connecting to a recovery catalog database?
I have created an rman user, with passsword rman. But I am able to connect to the db using whatever combination of password I want:
$ rman target rman/yyehe
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Fri May 2 10:25:17 2014
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connected to target database: TEST (DBID=845893491)
I am assuming that this is as my OS user already is part of the DBA OSD group (or in my case the OINSTALL group)??
11.2.0.2
Thanks
DA