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I believe that all you have to do is delete the old password file and then create a new one. You will then again need to grant sysdba and sysoper to those users that need those privs.
-- Robert Fazio, Oracle DBA rfazio_at_home.com remove nospam from reply address http://24.8.218.197/ "Nancy Labbé" <watson95_at_globetrotter.net> wrote in message news:6Yj_4.19325$NS6.255645_at_news.globetrotter.net...Received on Sun Jun 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
> I need to recreate control file with commands generated by
>
> ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE NORESETLOGS;
>
>
> I execute the following commands in Server Manager as internal user after
> shuting down the database:
>
> STARTUP NOMOUNT PFILE=...
>
> CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "PROD" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG
> MAXLOGFILES 100
> MAXLOGMEMBERS 2
> MAXDATAFILES 254
> MAXINSTANCES 16
> MAXLOGHISTORY 1600
> LOGFILE ...
> DATAFILE...;
>
> After the CREATE CONTROLFILE commands, the following messages are
returned:
>
> ORA-01503 CREATE CONTROLFILE failed
> ORA-01991 invalid password file name
>
> ------------
> The specified password file exists.
>
> Operating system: Netware 4.11
> RDBMS: Oracle 7.3.4
>
> In initsid.ora file: remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive
> ----------
>
> If I set remote_login_passwordfile to none, I can't connect to the
database
> with internal user (insuffisant privileges).
>
>
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