Recovering controlfile from autobackup

Hi to everyone,
I am practisisng RMAN backup and recovery in oracle 10g xe . My database is in noarchivelog mode. And I want to recover from loss of controlfile. I am performing following steps:
RMAN> STARTUP
$ mv ~/oradata/XE/control.dbf cc.bak
RMAN>SHUTDOWN ABORT
RMAN>STARTUP NOMOUNT
RMAN> RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM AUTOBACKUP;
RMAN> ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;
RMAN> RESTORE DATABASE;
RMAN>RECOVER DATABASE NOREDO;
RMAN>ALTER DATABASE open RESETLOGS;
and database recovered successfully. But I read oracle docs that says before restoring controlfile autobackup, we need to set dbid first. How can above steps that I perform also a success.
Edited by: sonidba on Feb 25, 2011 7:46 PM

RMAN> show all;
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/dbs/snapcf_XE.f'; # default

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