Re: Rman and Insufficient Privileges Error

From: Mark Brown <mbrown_at_echd.nospam.org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:08:00 GMT
Message-ID: <kw9oc.7790$z25.4257@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>

"Alex Ivascu" <alexdivascu_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Nf8oc.14382$A27.12781_at_fed1read06...
> You seem to try to connect to the database without a catalog. Try
> connecting as sys.
>

I don't seem to have a password for sys.

How do I connect with a catalog and how do I select the right catalog?

Thanks,
Mark

> Alex Ivascu
> www.ivascu.com
>
>
> "Mark" <gojira_at_lizardlair.no-spam.com> wrote in message
> news:J56oc.9178$p24.2812_at_newssvr23.news.prodigy.com...
> > We have a vendor supplied database system running on
> > Windows 2000 with Oracle8. Our network admin is
> > wanting to do backups on the databases and for some
> > reason the vendor isn't being helpful. Anyway, we're
> > trying to use rman with the command:
> >
> > rman target 'system/<pswd>@mcho'
> >
> > And we get this error: ORA-01031: insufficient privilegs
> >
> > No one at our site knows Oracle (we didn't set up the
> > server and we don't have any Oracle docs) and we're at
> > a loss as to how to get this to work.
> >
> > Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
>
>
Received on Tue May 11 2004 - 14:08:00 CDT