Can not reset password in Oracle 10g Express

Question

I have searched google for 4 hours, now I am certain:
"May be I am the only one in the world who have this problem."
I installed Oracle 10g Express on my Debian5.
I need to reset password for SYS/SYSTEM users
So I checked online tutorial says I need to use a utility called "orapwd" to recreate a password file.
Everything is smooth since now.
When I finally find this "orapwd" utility. I type "orapwd" as a root user. Terminal replies "orapwd command not found".
I then discovered the orapwd is some kind of x-execute file. After an extensive search on google I concluded that this kind of file is inexecutable.
Many tutorials I read online specify that the "orapwd" is actually "orapwd.exe", but on my Debian system it is "orapwd" with no extension.
Any suggestion is welcome.
ps: is there anyway I can reset password without going through "orapwd" s*t.
Best regards to all who have read to the end of this post

Answer 1

Eric wrote:
And Billy, what makes you think Windows Administrators do not know administration on command line?Experience dealing with Windows SAs over a decade and a half.
I got my first part time job as a Windows Administrator in the beginning era of Windows 95 in a small netcafe. The boss does not pay me but like me use workstations there for free.
In the early days, I administrate both Dos and Win3.1. I do my work on command line primarily and wrote a hell lot of *.bat files. In those days it were quite different. Because administration and configuration came from a command line DOS environment. We for example never configured networking for a Windows 3.1 or WFW 3.11 client via a GUI. It was done by directly editing system.ini and protocol.ini and making the correct changes.
And this made the guys and me almost fail our Windows CE certification because the silly multiple question exam asked which buttons to click in the GUI to configure networking and not how it works at actual system configuration level. In other words, it tested your knowledge of the GUI functions and not the actual system config and admin itself.
And then Windows NT was released and command line admin became the exception and not the rule. The All-Config-Eggs-in-a-Single-basket called the Windows Registry exemplified this flawed approach.
But since Window95 I find myself spending less and less time on command line, more and more on GUI and my work efficiency increase tremedously. I can record the mouse clicks, the key presses, then covert then into a script. I can change every setting of the system in just few clicks. In the world of Linux, this is still a dream, isn't it?You are missing the point. There are a large number of admin GUI tools available for Linux. But these seldom serve as crutches to configure the system, because of a i-am-clueless-factor.
If two systems, both are equally capable. To acheive the same thing, system A takes 2 working hours, system B takes 8 working hours. Doesn't this makes system B inferior compare to A?Because of the lack of knowledge and skill of a person to do the required on system B in 10 minutes now takes 8 hours instead? Ignorance of an operating system does not qualify as making system B inferior to system A.
In past decade, Linux became very popular in the server market is not becasue there are an increasing number of Linux system administrators who are good at command line administration but because Linux is becoming more user friendly. And as a result. This increased administrator's work efficiency and the same time reduce training cost which invites more people to learn Linux.Incorrect. There is a reason that 483 of the 500 of the fastest and most powerful computer systems on this planet runs Linux. And only 5 runs Windows.
And this has nothing to do with imagined user friendliness. It has everything to do with technical superiority and total cost of ownership.
So the more idiot proof the system is, the better the system will become.No. The less idiots there are, the better the quality of system administration, the better security, the more robust the systems are.