Trying to connect to target database...ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password

Question

I am trying to connect to a target database which on linux from a catalog database which is on Windows. I was initially having problems with our DEV database but eventually got it working. Now I have to register the QA database and I'm running into the same problems. Below is a list og things that I have tried:
C:\>rman
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu May 10 17:01:51 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
RMAN> connect target sys/password@fprcqa
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
2. So I went to the target database (FPRCQA) and I checked the following:
SYS@FPRCQA> select * from v$pwfile_users;
no rows selected
SYS@FPRCQA> grant sysdba to sys;
grant sysdba to sys
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabled
3. Then I checked the passwordfile
SYS@FPRCQA> show parameter pass
NAME TYPE VALUE
remote_login_passwordfile string[b] EXCLUSIVE
4. Then I created a passwordfile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs because it did not exist.
[oracle@rh-staging dbs]$ orapwd file=orapwdFPRCQA password=password entries=300
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8385 Sep 11 1998 init.ora
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 12920 May 3 2001 initdw.ora
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 1552 May 8 14:09 hc_FPRCQA.dat
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 24 May 8 14:09 lkFPRCQA
drwxr-xr-x 63 oracle dba 4096 May 8 15:12 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 May 10 16:10 .
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5632 May 10 16:10 spfileFPRCQA.ora
-rwSr----- 1 oracle oinstall 39424 May 10 16:14 orapwdFPRCQA
5. Then I tried again to grant sysdba to sys and it gave me the same error as before.
ALSO, I cannot connect to the the target database from the catalog database through sqlplus...as I get the same error of insufficient privs:
C:\>set ORACLE_SID=fprcqa
C:\>sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on Thu May 10 17:11:41 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect sys/password@fprcqa as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

Hello all;
I created the files with following command in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/
orapwd file=orapwRCVDB password=sys entries=20
remote_login_passwordfile=EXCLUSIVE
$ ls -ltr orapw*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 3584 Dec 22 15:29 orapwRCVDB
but still I am facing similar error ..
SQL> grant sysdba to system;
ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabled
so i checked ...
SQL> select * from v$pwfile_users;no rows selected
can anyone tell me where I am doing mistakes ? It's urgent !!
atul.