Re: How to name the password?

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:26:10 +0200
Message-ID: <hilgavsv4nfr3gq6fj06l5dm1og2dbtrgg@4ax.com>

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:56:39 +0200, Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote:

>Pete's wrote:
>> On unix, the name should be the following:
>> orapwORACLE_SID
>> and should be placed in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory. For NT/2000,
>> it should be similar. In fact, I believe you can specify any name you
>> want.
>>
>No - for M$ it's pwd[oracle_sid].ora
>To stay with another example, the instance ORCL would have a
>password file PWDorcl.ora.
>Location is correct.

Not 100 percent correct. There is a registry variable which has the exact name of the passwordfile.

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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