"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message
news:3d42f97d_3_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> OP is on Linux. I suspect he's logging onto the box as oracle (or
whatever)
> and then issuing something like sqlplus fred/bloggs as sysdba.
> Of course, Oracle doesn't care what surrounds the / since this is, as you
> imply, OS authentication by definition, as the database may not be open,
or
> even exist yet.
Indeed I seem to recall this demonstrated on one of the OCP DBA courses.
There's a pint for the first recorded successful connection to one of
Howards boxes with "connect david/bowie as sysdba"
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Sat Jul 27 2002 - 15:22:33 CDT
