Re: What's the database password in Personal Orac

Catchy reply but I'm suprised you even dignified that with a response. I am so glad someone is having the exact same problem as I am. The database password is supposed to be "oracle" on installation but it doesn't work for me. It did work while I was running windows just after the install finished, later it stopped working. "oracle" is still the database password (at least if you go into the password manager and type it in and select VERIFY it prompts you to change the database password - indicating that the entered password is correct). I have NO IDEA what is going on. I re-installed the product a couple of times and always get the same result (by the way I am using doublespace).

HOWEVER, I have found a workaround. I found it on the www server in one of the manuals. I created an icon to start the database from the command line instead of the database manager. The command is:

"VSMGR.EXE DATABASE=Oracle7 PASSWORD=oracle ACTION=startup"

This starts the database up no problem and everything else works like a charm. Still bugs me though that the database manager won't accept the password but the password utility says its correct.

In article <D3FKqL.8oM_at_nvl.army.mil> bajones_at_astro (Ebeth Jones) writes:
>From: bajones_at_astro (Ebeth Jones)
>Subject: Re: What's the database password in Personal Orac
>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:37:33 GMT
 

>In article <3gn2jd$gl2_at_crl.crl.com> roadgoat_at_crl.com (Timothy Wong) writes:
>>HATE TO SAY THIS. RTFM it's right there!
 

>Well, I imagine that much as you hated saying that, it really made
>you feel nice and smug and superior, didn't it? Now, how would
>you like to re-read the post that you were responding to, in which
>I stated that I tried all the usual oracle passwords, including
>oracle, change_on_install, manager, and yes, even tiger, and that
>the database WOULDN'T ACCEPT ANY OF THEM??? Should I have added
>a simple multiple choice section to my post?
 

>My system won't accept any passwords.
>possible reason -
> a) I'm just a lousy typist
> b) a file has probably been corrupted
> c) there is a password hidden somewhere in the FM that
> for some reason I missed, which is not oracle, change_on_install,
> manager, or tiger, but if I were a really brilliant oracle guru
> I would have spotted it
> d) this version of oracle has a bug in it that prevents it from
> recognizing passwords when initially installed, and everyone
> who has been reading this newsgroup knows about it, and the
> solution is -
 

>If (c), please supply the proper magic password.
>If (d), please supply the fix.
 

>Since several people said "try oracle, manager, etc", I concluded
>that "d" was not a problem. I tried entering the password enough
>times to know that I wasn't mis-typing it every time, so "a" was
>out. Since I already read the FM and didn't see any other passwords
>that I could have used, "c" was out unless someone could point me
>to exactly where in the FM it was. That left "b", and my brute
>force solution of simply re-installing everything in the hopes that
>whatever was corrupted would be overwritten seems to have worked
>very well.
 

>Thank you for playing. Perhaps you will be able to dazzle me with
>your bull^H^Hbrilliance another time.

>--
>Elizabeth Jones E-MAIL: bajones_at_nvl.army.mil
 

>"After long thought and much perplexity, to be very brief was all
>that she could determine on with any confidence of safety." Jane Austen
Received on Mon Feb 06 1995 - 21:03:41 CET