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Why is the home for Oracle Clusterware not recommended to be subdirectory of the Oracle base directory?

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Why is the home for Oracle Clusterware not recommended to be subdirectory of the Oracle base directory?

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If anyone other than root has write permissions to the parent directories of the CRS home, then they can give themselves root escalations. This is a security issue. The CRS home itself is a mix of root and non-root permissions, as appropriate to the security requirements. Please follow the install docs about who is your primary group and what other groups you need to create and be a member of.

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