Re: Operating system authentication for DBA

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:49:35 +0100
Message-ID: <u6cg94g67mhu35@corp.supernews.com>

"Mukesh Singh" <mksingh72_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:5d671409.0202091406.4bbe06fe_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I came across a very strange problem. I login as a user who is a
> member of DBA group on unix machine. I am not able to connect as
> sysdba from sqlplus but able to connect as internal using svrmgrl. I
> have checked there is no password file. Can please somebody explain
> what could be the reason ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mukesh.

Without any platform and version info (no one includes that, thinks everyone here is clairvoyant) and any specific error messages, one can only suspect a faulty install, with incorrect ownerships and permissions, especially if you get ora-1034 Oracle not available.

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 17:49:35 CST