Re: password with command orapwd ?

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:18:24 +1000
Message-ID: <40e07cf1$0$18192$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

"zeb" <spam_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message news:40e0707f$0$2047$636a15ce_at_news.free.fr...
> Hi,
>
> When I create an orapwSID file
> with the command
> $orapwd file=orapwSID password=test
>
> What is this password ?

It is the password that the user SYS will use when connecting to the database in order to perform privileged actions, assuming that you actually want to use password file authentication and haven't configured your /etc/groups in such a way that in fact operating system authentication of privileged users is in use.

> When I need it ?

That's an extremely basic question (which is OK, because we all had to start somewhere). Do have a look at http://tahiti.oracle.com and obtain the Oracle Concepts book. You need it to authenticate as a privileged user (IE, one who is able to perform the 5 privileged actions of startup, shutdown, backup, recover and create database) unless you prefer to use the O/S authentication mechanism.

Regards
HJR
> What it is used for ?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> Oracle 8.1.7
> HP-UX 11.0
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 15:18:24 CDT