Re: default setup passwords 8i

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:06:21 -0700
Message-ID: <379779BC.7E26A7F2@us.oracle.com>

Wilco

There is a supported way to change the DBSNMP password and it SHOULD be done, because the DBSNMP user is too highly privileged to leave with the default password. The steps are:

1. Stop the agent
2. Change the password of DBSNMP in the database.
3. Edit $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/snmp_rw.ora, for EACH database add: snmp.connect.<service name>.name=DBSNMP snmp.connect.<service name>.password=<password for DBSNMP account>

    Note: <service name is the fully qualified TNS alias, such as

             mydb.world; not the SID.

d. Change file permissions on snmp_rw.ora to 640 (eliminate world read)

e. Start the agent

You should see two DBSNMP sessions in each database on the node (as long it has been discovered by the agent). If you don't see the DBSNMP sessions, check the settings in the snmp_rw.ora file.

HTH. Pete

Wilco Oosterom wrote:

> Pete Sharman wrote:
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > There aren't any I'm aware of that you shouldn't change. You just
> > need to make sure any scripts etc. are modified to use the new ones.
> > In particular, look at the .ora files for OEM if you change the
> > password for the DBSNMP user.
> >
> > As for why some passwords are different to usernames, I suspect it's
> > simply because different developers were involved in setting up that
> > code! ;)
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > sam.petitto_at_netsec.net wrote:
> >
> > > I've seen quite a few references to user/passwords like scott/tiger,
> > > system/manager, and internal/oracle in these postings over the past
> > > months. 8i ships with about a dozen default users(those I mentioned
> > > among them), most of which use the username as the default password.
> > > I'm about to change my default passwords. Are there any I should NOT
> > > change, and why not ? Also, several of these Oracle-created users do
> > > not have passwords which are the same as the username(like the
> > > aurora user). I know I don't need to know it's password to change
> > > it's password, but I don't understand the reason for making some
> > > default passwords different than usernames.
> > >
> > > TIA
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> Pete,

>

> Beware not to change DBSNMP/DBSNMP if you want to use the intelligent
> agent, else it will no longer work
> Better to fiddle it's privileges!

>
> Wilco

--
Regards

Pete

Received on Thu Jul 22 1999 - 15:06:21 CDT