Minimum entries in password file

Hello,
I have created password file using following command ( on WXP ):
orapwd file=path entries=1 password=password
File was succesfully created, but server allows me to grant dba, sysdba, sysoper to 5 different users, until it displayd error message ORA-01996: ...password file ...is full.
How can I restrict minimum entries in password file to 1?
Thank you.
Tibor

Maybe this extract from Oracle documentation can explain :
ENTRIES
This parameter specifies the number of entries that you require the password file to accept. This number corresponds to the number of distinct users allowed to connect to the database as SYSDBA or SYSOPER. The actual number of allowable entries can be higher than the number of users, because the ORAPWD utility continues to assign password entries until an operating system block is filled. For example, if your operating system block size is 512 bytes, it holds four password entries. The number of password entries allocated is always a multiple of four.
Multiple of four has to be intended besides the first one. Entries=1 allows 5 entries, Entries=6 allows 9 entries.

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Thank you and sorry for my mistaken English, I'm not from english-speaking country.

Hi,
You cannot!
In Linux, here is absolutely no difference between a file with 4 entries and a file with 1 entry.
However, if you are using linux, you could use the following command
cksum $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapw* | awk '{printf "%s has between %d and %d entries\n", $3, ($2-1536) / 128 + 1, ($2-1536) / 128 + 4}'
HTH
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How do your users connect ? You may have any number of users connected locally as sysdba. Local connections are authenticated by OS, no password file is used.
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null

Usage: orapwd file=<fname> password=<password> entries=<users>
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Hi Marco,
as far as I know, you have to use the REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE = SHARED option in your init...ora file.
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Hi,
While trying connecting from SQL prompt using command
SQL> CONNECT SYS/PASSWORD@CONNECT_STRING AS SYSDBA
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ORA-01031 insufficient privilege
If SQL> CONNECT SYS/PASSWORD AS SYSDBA
It works successfully??
After connecting without using connect_string.
Only one DB is running on this machine.
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Edited by: Bharat Kaushik on May 31, 2009 4:20 PM

The first command is a 'remote connection'. To be able to connect as sysdba remotely, spfile remote_login_passwordfile should be set to exclusive.
When there is no password file or the parameter is incorrect this results in ora-1031.
The second command uses O/S authentication, and doesn't use the password file at all.
O/S authentication is set up in sqlnet.ora.
SYS has always SYSDBA, by design. Granting SYSDBA to SYS is redundant.
Obviously in this directory name
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0db_1/dbs/
there is a / missing and it should have been
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs/
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Good afternoon,
In the 2 Day DBA document it states:
>
When you invoke DBCA as part of the Oracle Database installation process, DBCA
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>
I created the database using DBCA and, it must have created a password file for me since I am able to log in remotely to the database.
The question is: I cannot locate the password file DBCA created, I don't know what its name is. Can someone provide me with the name DBCA uses for the password file ?
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Hello SB,
>
post proof
>
I don't know if this qualifies as "proof" but... from the 2 Day DBA document distributed by Oracle, page 6-9:
>
When you invoke DBCA as part of the Oracle Database installation process, DBCA
creates a password file with one entry: the SYS user. Granting SYSDBA to a user adds
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>
I have no reason to doubt that statement. ;)
>
for some/many/most Oracle versions which you decided we did not need to know yours the file resides in
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>
I didn't decide you didn't need to know. I forgot to mention I am using Windows. As far as the Oracle version, since I used to constantly forget, I made the version part of my user name 11gR2, I can see how that can be easily overlooked.
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Thank you for your response...
I deleted all my databases in my PC and reconstructed just one (certific), after that I followed your instruction and now I can connect into the database with the sys as sysdba login. But I just have one stangeness : I created a user willer and gave to him the sysdba privilege, when i log into the database with this user I can log on like a sysdba with wich ever user I want, even if the user doesn't exist.
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Hi All
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DB: 10.2.0.5.0/Single instance
While creating the em repository I get the following:
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