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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Internal password confusion
Platform: NT; Oracle version: 8.1.6 EM. Default install.
I found myself unable to connect to a database using the userid
'internal', password 'oracle'. Same failure in both svrmgrl and DBA
Studio.
After much reading on these newsgroups, and experimenting, here's what
I found.
I used ORAPWD to recreate the password file with a password of
'oracle'. I could then connect as 'internal/oracle' in svrmgrl. I
could also
connect as 'sys/oracle' - which agrees with the various posts and help
texts that say that ORAPWD changes BOTH 'internal' and 'sys' (contrary to what some posters have said).
However, in dba studio, I found that I could connect as
'sys/change_on_install' as a 'normal' user, or as 'sys/oracle' as
sysdba user. So I concluded that there are really two 'versions' of
the sys user in my environment at this point - 'sys/internal' and
'sys/oracle'!
This is not reproducible in svrmgrl or sql*plus - in these apps, only the 'sys/change_on_install' works. But I just re-tested - dba studio allows me to connect as sysdba using sys/oracle!
For what it's worth...
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