Setting listener password in oracle 8i

i have some very old windows databases that are 8.1.0.7. I am not able to upgrade these.
I am trying to set a password.
1. go to command line
2. lsnrctl
3. set password <password>
LSNRCTL> set password l1stener1$
The command completed successfully
LSNRCTL> save_config
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(
21)))
No changes to save for LISTENER.
The command completed successfully
LSNRCTL>Why does it say nothing to save?
3. When I type status
I get: Security: off
How do I verify that there is a password? I can't turn the listener off. Its a production database.
When I look in my listener.ora file, it does not appear to be getting updated with a password?
Edited by: Guess2 on Sep 30, 2009 12:20 PM

First: Always test in a test environment before doing it in production.
Next: If you are very brief, you can stop and restart the listener without interupting service.
The only people who might be affected would be someone who happened to be attempting to connect at the split second your listener is down. Otherwise, existing connections should not be impacted. But, do NOT do this in production (never, ever, ever). Got it?
Finally, if you have set the password, changed the password, and saved your configuration, you should be able to look into your listener.ora file and see the password setting. It should look something like:
#----ADDED BY TNSLSNR 30-SEP-2009 15:41:13---
PASSWORDS_LISTENER = 9BD20802761D432E
There are numerous sites discussing listener passwords.
Do a search on "lsnrctl set password"
Hope that helps...
ji li

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