On Jun 28, 9:06 am, sybrandb <sybra..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 28, 12:33 pm, bitmus <d.bit..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Hi.
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> > i've faced a problem that connecting sys as sysdba is always giving
> > ORA-01031: insufficient privileges.
> > the problem is only occured when using as sysdba on root user. if i
> > connect using system/blabla, there is no error.
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> > also connecting sys as sysdba is ok for other system user such as
> > oracle.
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> > i have added root user to dba group. that is not helped me.
> > and i compared root user to other system user, and i did not found any
> > other differences.
> > Help me.
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> > Thanks.
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> Why do you want to misuse root to connect as a sysdba user to the
> database? As you are root, su - oracle -c <command> allows you to
> execute *anything* as user oracle.
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> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA- Hide quoted text -
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Sybrand is most definitely correct. You should never use the root
account to directly access Oracle but should either su - oracle to run
DBA type tasks and just connect via a valid Oracle username for
running scripts.
Received on Thu Jun 28 2007 - 08:34:27 CDT
