Ora Password

Is there a way to get password for seamless login? Our company policy prohibits hardcoding password into any program. WE need to load data using sql*loader and we are unable to automate the process in unix since we need the password to connect.
Appreciate some response!
Thanks!

Hi,
You can use the Operating System validation of the users feature of Oracle, permitting to the user that execute the cron task to login to the DB using only the OS validation.
One other solution may be to save the username/pwd in an environment variable in an hidden .pwd (for example) file, accessible only to the cron user, in the shell script calling SQL*Loader You have to call that file and then reset the env variable.
Bye Max

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Dear Amy!
Symptom:
When trying to open (or mount) a database the following error is generated:
ORA-01991: invalid password file '...PWDOrcl.ora'Where ‘Orcl’ is the SID of the database instance.
Cause:
Typically some corruption of the password file, or possibly the password file is for another database instance?
Possible Remedies:
If encountered when creating the database then it is because Oracle expects to create the password file but it already exists. In this instance database creation will have failed. Delete the password file and try again.
If it is suspected that the password file is corrupt then try deleting it and recreating it:
1. Delete the existing password file.
2.Create a new/replacement password file:
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Hello Kathie,
http://ora-28003.ora-code.com/
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User Names & Passwords for Oracle 9i

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jose trejo ([email protected]):
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jose trejo ([email protected]):
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How can I fix this?
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Thanx.

NPD.
The possibility is that probably the password file in use is some how tried to be opened up and have got corrupted or may be due to some other error over h/w or some thing like that ,its corrupted. The best option would be
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Lost sys password ...any way to recover

hi All
I lost the sys password ... is there any way to recover it ....
Thanks

Pay no attention to the ridiculous piece of advice you've just been given by someone else! Restoring a prior backup would be a monumentally moronic thing to do -apart from anything else, all you'd be doing is restoring the password you say you've forgotten!
You don't say what OS you're on, and that makes a bit of a difference, but ultimately not much so I'll just carry on... but as a tip for the future, always mention your OS because then people replying don't have to guess.
1. Members of the dba group (or the ORA_DBA group on Windows) are allowed to log on as a SYS without supplying a password at all. Connect / as sysdba means "get me on as sys, but I'm not telling you my password" -at which point Oracle checks who you're logged on to at the OS level, and then checks the group memberships of the dba (Linux/Unix) or ORA_DBA groups (Windows). If you're a member you're in... and then you can issue a command such as 'alter user sys identified by newpwd'.
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The file has to live in the ORACLE_HOME\database or ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory; it has to be called whatever is appropriate for your operating system (now you see why it helps to know your OS!) and the figure for "entries" represents how many people you might want to grant the SYSDBA privilege to in the future, so make it higher than you think you need right now.
On Linux, the required name for the password file is of the form orapwSID, where SID is the name of your instance/database. On Windows, it's as I showed you above: pwdSID.ora.
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db:9.2.0.4
os:windows 2003 32bit
操作如下：
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channel ch0: restore complete
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output filename=E:\ORADATA\CONTROL02.CTL
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SQL>
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My Db Version:10.2.0
OS: Solaris
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But after that when i am trying to login like
$sqlplus
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Please acquire the required permissions :
ORA-12546: TNS:permission denied
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