RE: Svrmgrl "connect internal" asks for password??

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-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Ball [mailto:terry_ball_at_csgsystems.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Svrmgrl "connect internal" asks for password??

Try looking in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit directory.  If this directory is full, it can not create the .aud file to log that someone is using svrmgrl and will
ask for password.

Terry

"Fowler, Kenneth R" wrote:

> List,
>
> I have an installation of Oracle 8.1.6 on a DBA test server where svrmgrl
> "connect internal" seems to want a password...
>
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic February 2000
>
> Configured oracle environment aliases...
>
> Alias     SID       Oracle Home
> -----     ---       -----------
> dba816    dba816    /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6
> dba817    dba817    /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
>
> $ id
> uid=301(oracle) gid=300(dba)
> $ groups
> dba
> $ env | grep ORACLE
> ORACLE_BASE=/Volumes/app/oracle
> $ dba816
> dba816 $ env | grep ORACLE
> ORACLE_BASE=/Volumes/app/oracle
> ORACLE_SID=dba816
> ORACLE_HOME=/Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6
> dba816 $ cdcreate
> /Volumes/app/oracle/admin/dba816/create
> dba816 $ svrmgrl
>
> Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.6.0.0 - Production
>
> Copyright (c) 1997, 1999, Oracle Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.
>
> Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.6.2.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning option
> JServer Release 8.1.6.2.0 - Production
>
> SVRMGR> connect internal;
> Password:
> Password:
> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
> SVRMGR> ^D
> Server Manager complete.
> dba816 $ dba817
> dba817 $ env | grep ORACLE
> ORACLE_BASE=/Volumes/app/oracle
> ORACLE_SID=dba817
> ORACLE_HOME=/Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
> dba817 $ cdcreate
> /Volumes/app/oracle/admin/dba817/create
> dba817 $ svrmgrl
>
> Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.7.0.0 - Production
>
> Copyright (c) 1997, 1999, Oracle Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.
>
> Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning option
> JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
>
> SVRMGR> connect internal;
> Connected.
> SVRMGR> ^D
> Server Manager complete.
>
> I know that the usual reason for this is that the account running svrmgrl is
> not a member of the appropriate unix group (usually "dba" or as specified at
> installation time) but this is not the case here.  On this server I have
> Oracle 8.1.6 (Home = /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6) and Oracle 8.1.7
> (Home = /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.7).  My login script sets up aliases
> for each SID listed in /var/opt/oracle/oratab.  These aliases use the oraenv
> script with environment variable ORAENV_ASK=NO to set appropriate values for
> ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME and PATH etc.  Other than that, the environment is
> exactly the same regardless of what SID I switch to (see log above).
> However "connect internal" asks for a password for Oracle 8.1.6 but does not
> ask for one for Oracle 8.1.7.  I am pretty sure that I specified that the
> group name be "dba" for 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 so that should not be the issue.
>
> Can anybody give me some pointers of other things to look at to try and
> resolve the problem???
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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