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Re: INTERNAL password, Oracle 7.3, Windows NT

From: Krishna Ramanathan <ou90746_at_deere.com>
Date: 1996/10/16
Message-ID: <32654F13.30ED@deere.com>#1/1

Peter Moore wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I thought I knew what I was doing as a DBA on VMS and Unix, but now
> I've been landed with an NT box with a pre-installed database and I
> haven't got the foggiest...
>
> Can anyone answer me the following:
>
> 1) How do I change the 'INTERNAL' user password?
> 'ALTER USER internal ...' doesn't work as there's no such user!
> And I can't shutdown the database to change some params because
> the INTERNAL password is neither manager nor change_on_install.
>
> 2) What do I do to allow me to log in as SYSDBA? There is mention of
> an orapwd73 utility, but this doesn't seem to allow for having two
> instances on the same box with different passwords...
>
> If anyone can point me to exactly where to look for this... The
> online docs are next to useless and there are *no* paper docs, so I'm
> at a loose end on this one.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> PT
>
> --
> Peter Moore.
> DBA, IS Ops,
> Sequent Computer Systems Ltd, Weybridge, UK.
> "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be happy to make an exception"

I think there is a NT instance manager utility that should have been installed during database installation. You can use it to change the internal password. I think you need to know the current password. - Krishna Received on Wed Oct 16 1996 - 00:00:00 CDT

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