Re: oracle password file

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:05:59 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.10.29.23.05.58.809748@sbcglobal.net>

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:59:07 -0700, Mark D Powell wrote:

> The types of filenames allowed for the password file are operating
> system specific. Some operating systems require the password file to
> adhere to a specific format and be located in a specific directory.

Unrelated to your post, Oracle used to support a shell variable or a logical in VMS called ORA_PWFILE or ORA_SID_PWFILE which was pointing to a non-default password file location. As the following shows, this is no longer supported:

$ strings $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle|egrep "ORA_.*PWFILE"|wc -l 0
$

Does anybody here know why was that de-supported?

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