Re: Lost Database internal password

In article <39E18A58.DC8F533E_at_kedros.com>,   Jerome Gransac <jgransac_at_kedros.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a database on NT4.0 with Oracle 8.15i
> I wanted to evoluate from Oracle 8.15i to 8.16i.
> When i have to give informations about the data base, one of these is
> the password.
> When I have created, I don't remember i gave an internal password to
> this database.
> How can I get this password now ?
>
> There is a file "PWDmpdata.ora" which seems to be the file which
> contains pwd about this database (mpdata).
>
> Many thx for informations.
>
> Jerome
>
>

Which isn't readable.
The password is *hardcoded* in your strtmpdata.cmd file. Alternatively use the orapwd utility just to override the password.

Hth,

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