RE: Password

I encountered an interesting thing recently with 8iR2 on Win 2000. At the beginning I was never prompted for a password when I connect internal. Then one day I got the "Credential retrieval failed" message whenever I try to connect/internal. I commented out SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) in sqlnet.ora file. But now it prompts me for password when I connect/internal. Has anyone seen this? How do I get back to where I won't get prompted for internal password?

Thanks.

Richard

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Sandeep Kurliye
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Password

It is just - you need to know internal password and you can change all other password once you connected to it.

Even if suppose you don't know internal password, you can recreate password file by using orapwd utility.

Which version you are using, and on which platform???

If you are using Oracle 7.3.4 on NT, then you can create an entry in registry as -
DBA_AUTHORIZATION and its value as - BYPASS

When you will connect from server manager on the srever, it won't ask you for internal password and you can change all passwords which you want.

HTH, Sandeep.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	B, Ravindra [SMTP:Ravindra.B_at_compaq.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 1:00 PM
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	Subject:	Password

	Hi,
	One of my customer has forgotten the password for sys and system
user.Is
	there anyway of
	changing the password.

	Ravindra
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