Password file usage

hpux 11.23
ora 10.2.0.2
I have a question about the password file. I've been doing a lot of searching, but haven't really found my answer.
I have my primary and my standby database, which I created the password file when I built the standby.
Is the password set to the sys user, synched up to the password in the file? All of the sudden I am getting heartbeat errors for this connection.
says invalid user/password.
If I recall right, the db has to be shut down to regenerate password files, correct? Is there any way to force these to resync without shutting down?
Thanks.

You dont need to do anything ..
If you change the password through SQL command your pasword file gets update automatically....
The reason for your issue could be the STANDBY sys password might have been changed..
Both the SYS password has to be same

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