Re: How to have a DB specific PASSWD file?

Each database has to have its own password file. If you are getting invalid just recreate it and try again.

HTH,
Ruth
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From: "Tirumala, Surendra HS" <surendra.tirumala_at_hs.utc.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:46 PM Subject: How to have a DB specific PASSWD file?

> Hi friends,
>
> We have a production instance running with 'remote_login_passwordfile' set
> to exclusive.
> We decided to created new test(dev) instance similar to the prod one.
> We opted for exp/imp for some reasons.
> And we faced the error(I don't remember the error number) saying it is
> looking of rpassword file at
> '$ORACLE_HOME/dbs' and got a 'INVALID' one at that place.
> And just to continue with the creation of our test instance,I set the
> 'remote_login_passwordfile'
> to none and created the instance.
> I have the following doubts in this regard:
>
> 1)Can we have database(or instance) specific password file or there can
be
> only one passwdfile per ORACLE binary.
> (FYI, we don't have any such parameter in the syntax)
>
> 2)Some time back,I observed that a password file is automatically created
> when we created
> a database with the help of DBASST created scripts with the option
> 'exclusive' for the parameter.
>
> How to know about the details(no of entries, password) of this already
> created file.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.
> Thanks & regards,
>
> Surendra Tirumala
> Oracle DBA
> 860-654-1322 (work)
> 860-298-9141 (home)
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 06:34:12 CST