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Re: Lost the internal password of a db - thanks

From: J. Park <johan_park_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:18:26 +0200
Message-ID: <8cepf3$kem$1@weber.a2000.nl>


thank you all
Johan

"Reinhard Asmus" <asmus_at_spdfrak.de> wrote in message news:38EADFF6.4A728F13_at_spdfrak.de...
> Hallo Johan,
>
> the internal password is situated in a file in the filesystem.
>
> The standard path for this file is $ORACLE_HOME/DATABASE. There you can
> find pwd<example>.ora. Example is standing for the name of your
> instance.
>
> With the program orapwd you can build a new file with a new password
> (before working you can save the old file).
>
> Especially like this orapwd file=pwd<example>.ora password=<example>
> entries=5.
>
> Reinhard
>
> "J. Park" schrieb:
>
> > I have lost the internal password of a database.
> > Is there a way to find out what the password was
> > or is it possible to change it to something else.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > Johan
>
Received on Wed Apr 05 2000 - 02:18:26 CDT

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