Cannot activate password file

Question

Hello,
I need to enable remote login for sysdba / sysoper thus I've created a password file.
> orapwd file=orapwd.pwd password=super_secret entries=10The file orapwd.pwd was created successful in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs.Now in SQL*Plus
SQL> SELECT VALUE FROM v$parameter WHERE NAME = 'remote_login_passwordfile';
VALUE
EXCLUSIVE
SQL> GRANT sysdba TO sysuser;
ERROR: at line 1:
ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabledThis happens after a database restart too.I've even tried to switch back to a pfile instead of the spfile use to set the parameter to NONE and EXCLUSIVE back and forth.
Any idea what else could be wrong?
Thanks in advance
Frank

Answer 1

Yes, that was it, thanks
The documentation library says:
------ snip ------
The following command creates a password file named acct.pwd that allows up to 30 privileged users with different passwords. In this example, the file is initially created with the password secret for users connecting as SYS.
orapwd FILE=acct.pwd PASSWORD=secret ENTRIES=30
------ snap ------
... and forgets to mention that the filename MUST BE orapw<SID> without any filename extension.
Thanks again
Frank