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Alexey Starinsky
Alexey Starinsky

Reputation: 4275

Become root in the official Oracle Database docker container

I installed Oracle Database with the official dockerfile. The database works, but it is not clear how to became root (I need to install perl for installing sample schemas). I tried this:

sudo docker exec -u 0 -it oracle18se /bin/bash

but got:

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:345: starting container process caused "chdir to cwd (\"/home/oracle\") set in config.json failed: permission denied": unknown

what does this mean?

Is there a default root password?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2555

Answers (2)

Francesco Mantovani
Francesco Mantovani

Reputation: 12197

Even easier to remember:

docker exec -u 0 -it 19c bash

Upvotes: 0

char
char

Reputation: 2147

You need to switch the working directory explicitly, e.g. with

docker exec -u root --workdir / -ti oracle18se /bin/sh

Some more info on that issue can be found on github here.

Upvotes: 6

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