Re: can't connect '/ as sysdba'

Metalink Note#69642.1 is quite detailed.

1. corrupted sqlnet.ora file or invalid entries in sqlnet.ora ?
2. TNS_ADMIN
3. ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, TWO_TASK, PATH (which ORACLE_HOME/bin ?)
4. perms on $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle
5. unixid, gid etc
6. ipcrm
7. df -k $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit
8. REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE
9. Read permission on /etc/passwd (truss sqlplus to see that it reads /etc/passwd !)
10. AIX 5.3.3 ML5 prevents / as sysdba. (see item 8 in note 69642.1)

Other references in that note

At 06:14 AM Thursday, Janine Sisk wrote:
>....
>no matter what I do, I get an ORA-01031 "Insufficient privileges"
>error when I try to connect with '/ as sysdba', which prevents
>dbstart and dbshut from working. I have worked with other 9i
>installations and have never had this problem before.
>

Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital

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