From: "Robert Fazio" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle References: <9gmcc6$94c3@imsp212.netvigator.com> Subject: Re: Forget admin login account username & password Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:12:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.8.218.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.pa.home.com 994515142 24.8.218.197 (Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:12:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:12:22 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Patrick, I really think you need to read some before you start modifying the database parameters. If the database isn't needed the username is internal. See below: % svrmgrl % svrmgrl> connect / as sysdba; -- connect internal; could work too connected. % svrmgrl> alter user (username) identified by (password); Just know that even a small Oracle Database can take up 1G of space. "Patrick" wrote in message news:9gmcc6$94c3@imsp212.netvigator.com... > Dear all, > > Can any body suggest me a means to do if I forgot the username and password > of an Oracle 8i DB, I am not a DBA and not very familiar with Oracle. It > just used up many space in harddisk and I want to have a configuration on > the data file size. > > Thanks > > Patrick > >