Sys & system passwords unknown

I installed 9i on my home computer for personal, educational use. SYS and SYSTEM passwords were changed, but now are lost. Do I need to uninstall & reinstall the database in order to correct the problem?

If your sysman account keeps getting locked(timed), could it be something with a profile setting you have? I'm not that familiar yet with 11g, but I know in 10g the default profile has FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS set for will lock after 10 unsuccessful login attempts.
Is perhaps your OEM attempting to use a wrong password and continues to connect until it locks the account?
Or perhaps there is a default password_life_time (expire_time).

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Use below command and you no need to pass userid/password. It works for all versions.
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Hi,
That's true you might need to check the scheduled script where password is hard-coded. I hv one point over here. How to change the password for SYS..? Is it by deleting & recreating password file with orapw utility or do we hv any other way to do it.
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96 instances? do you have to administer the same users on all databases as well? If so, you might want to go for an account sync-ing solution where all credentials are stored in a central place and a change of a user in any of the databases or the central place will update all 96 instances for you. Novell's DirXml will do just that for you. I've had some great experiences with it.
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Dear.
My account is locked on login failures. ( i know its correct password and it has the dba priviliges ).
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hello,
From the command line try:
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I want to startup up a database from Oracle Entreprise Manager. I forgot the sys and system password.
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Hi Rajesh,
1.I need to view the password the for account :
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Hi,
>>I really forgot the sys and system password
Really ? or are you trying to hack the database ? :-)
You can try this too:
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