Re: about password file

From: James Mu <jamesmu_ca_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:20:42 GMT
Message-ID: <KBkM6.125651$_f3.1750116@news20.bellglobal.com>

Hi,

In unix platform you must place pwd file according to the following format and location

$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapw$ORACLE_SID In NT or some other platforms, you may use ORA_"SID"_PWFILE or ORA_PWFILE to specify the path of the orapwd file.

James

Victor Lung <victorlung_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9drn2o$ro2_at_imsp212.netvigator.com...
> i have some questions in setting the initialization paramater
> REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE.
>
> As you know, there are NONE, EXCLUSIVE and SHARED values for this
parameter.
> However, I am not quite understand about the SHARED value.
> This value means the password file can be used by multiple databases.
> But how can those database know where to get this shared passwordfile? Is
> it defined during instance creation?
>
> Can I change the passwordfile location later?
>
> THX
>
>
>
Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 20:20:42 CDT