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Re: Can't connect to [new] 9i DB - SYSTEM & SYS accounts are locked

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-family_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:03:26 GMT
Message-ID: <y57m7.447570$p33.8525021@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>


I don't know the answer to your question, but I think I saw something similar on the ask tom site. If you go to http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:1: you can search the Ask Tom Archives.
Jim
"Mark Nagel" <mnagel_at_powerhousetechnology.com> wrote in message news:51bfdb2c.0109070851.71e3b167_at_posting.google.com...
> I recently installed Oracle 9i server on a Solaris 8 box and am unable
> to login via sqlplus. I get the error "ORA-2800: the account is
> locked" when attempting to login using SYS or SYSTEM. I used dbca to
> create 3 diffrent databases (without example schemas), and at the end
> of the creation process it instructed me to change the passwords on
> SYS andSYSTEM and to lock these accounts. I am quite sure that I am
> entering the passwords correctly, but I believe that the "lock"-ing
> issue is the problem. I cannot login using the scott account either
> (I believe that this won't exist without the example schema?)
>
> Do I have to blow away these databases and start over again (and not
> lock the SYS and SYSTEM accounts)? Or is there something that I am
> overlooking?
>
> I am not an Oracle DBA, nor do I play one on TV. I have been thrust
> into getting something up quickly and am not afforded the time to read
> through and digest the reams of documentation :-(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark Nagel
Received on Fri Sep 07 2001 - 12:03:26 CDT

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