Re: What's the database password in Personal Orac

In article <3gn2jd$gl2_at_crl.crl.com> roadgoat_at_crl.com (Timothy Wong) writes:
>HATE TO SAY THIS. RTFM it's right there!

Well, I imagine that much as you hated saying that, it really made you feel nice and smug and superior, didn't it? Now, how would you like to re-read the post that you were responding to, in which I stated that I tried all the usual oracle passwords, including oracle, change_on_install, manager, and yes, even tiger, and that the database WOULDN'T ACCEPT ANY OF THEM??? Should I have added a simple multiple choice section to my post?

My system won't accept any passwords.
possible reason -

1. I'm just a lousy typist
2. a file has probably been corrupted
3. there is a password hidden somewhere in the FM that for some reason I missed, which is not oracle, change_on_install, manager, or tiger, but if I were a really brilliant oracle guru I would have spotted it
4. this version of oracle has a bug in it that prevents it from recognizing passwords when initially installed, and everyone who has been reading this newsgroup knows about it, and the solution is -

If (c), please supply the proper magic password. If (d), please supply the fix.

Since several people said "try oracle, manager, etc", I concluded that "d" was not a problem. I tried entering the password enough times to know that I wasn't mis-typing it every time, so "a" was out. Since I already read the FM and didn't see any other passwords that I could have used, "c" was out unless someone could point me to exactly where in the FM it was. That left "b", and my brute force solution of simply re-installing everything in the hopes that whatever was corrupted would be overwritten seems to have worked very well.

Thank you for playing. Perhaps you will be able to dazzle me with your bull^H^Hbrilliance another time.

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