Re: SYSTEM Password

From: Bob Morrison <rmorrison_at_cahners.com>
Date: 1997/04/03
Message-ID: <3343B73B.6C56@cahners.com>#1/1

Douglas Y. Sur wrote:
>
> Is there any way to derive the password for SYSTEM or SYS without
> knowing their passwords? The only way I can think of is reinstalling
> the damn software.
> The RDBMS is running on a HP-UX 10.x operating system.
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If you can log into svrmgr and connect internal you can change the password for system. Or if an account has the DBA role, or ALTER ANY USER priv, they can change the password.

Bob Morrison Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST