RE: how to find out internal's password???

Janet,

The default password for SYS is CHANGE_ON_INSTALL. Maybe you will be lucky and find that nobody changed it. If you are running 8.1.x, then try logging in through sqlplus as follows:

sqlplus internal

If you get in, then change the SYS password to something you want:

ALTER USER SYS IDENTIFIED BY new_password;

Hope this helps.

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Linsy [SMTP:janetlinsy_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:07 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: how to find out internal's password???
>
> This is in additional to my previous question about
> how to turn off passowrd for internal:
>
> To try to turn off pwd for internal, I commented out
> remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive in the init
> file, now I need to shutdown and restart the database.
> I tried to login as internal to shutdown the db, when
> it askes for password, I tried a bunch things
> including sys, manager, and they all failed. So I
> used sqlplus system/pwd to login and do shutdown, the
> database is down, but now I cannot login to svrmgrl to
> startup the database, since I don't know internal's
> password. So my question is how to find out
> internal's password? Thanks a lot.
>
> Janet
>
>
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