Deployment Problems-Can't get oracle user password

What happens for deployment?

If you have a wrapper shell script to perform deployment of BPEL processes, you would need to have a user to log in to the box.
Generally such wrapper scripts for deployment of BPEL processes are run as oracle user.

What is the concern?

Generally oracle user is used to run the installation.
Now for installation to run oracle user has every access to do any thing in the system.

Now if the oracle password is given for deployment, there is concern of miss use of it.
Who ever has access to it can mess up the system big time.

Why is this so?

oracle user has sys admin privileges. So generally the DBA would not give this to you.

Alternative option

Create a new user for deployment.
Get this user the following access and you don't need oracle username password.
Only read and execute access in the below list would be enough to get depployment script working.

${ORACLE_HOME}/bpel/bin	All files	BPEL deployment related files	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/jdk	All files and sub directories	set jdk home for deployment	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/ant	All files and sub directories	set deployment ant modules	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/bpel/system/classes	All files and sub directories	bpel classpath	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/${oc4j_instance}/applications	All files and sub directories	for j2ee related deployment	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/bpel/lib	All files	BPEL libraries to be included for compilation	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home	All JAR files	BPEL client jar files	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home/lib	All JAR files	BPEL client jar files	r-x
${ORACLE_HOME}/lib	All JAR files	dependent JAR files	r-x