EXP-00056: ORACLE error 1017 encountered

Greetings All, I am trying to do a database export with the following sytax:
exp / file=myfile.dmp log=myfile.log full=y rows=n

I am logged in as the unix user "oracle" who's primary group is "dba".  This is the user that owns the database install. I am running 64 bit Enterprise Edition 8.1.7.4 RDBMS.

When I execute the above query I am prompted with the error messages listed above in the subject line of this post.

I can successfully use sqlplus logging in as "/as sysdba"?: sqlplus "/as sysba"

SQL> I have a password file set up and "remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive" is in the init.ora file. The orapwSID file has the user "sys" in it and the password for the passoword file is the same as the password for the database user "sys".

When I look at the view v$pwfile_users:
SQL> select * from v$pwfile_users;

USERNAME                       SYSDB SYSOP
------------------------------ ----- -----
INTERNAL                       TRUE  TRUE
SYS                            TRUE  TRUE

SQL> and this is correct.

Any ideas why I cannot do an export without supplying a username and password would be greately appreciated.

Louis. Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 20:13:22 CEST