The Infamous Portal Configuration Assistant Problem

Hi.
Just discovered this forum so I thought I would post up the most common and infuriating problem I have had in the installation of Portal over the past few weeks.....
When attempting to configure Oracle Portal through the Assistant, it asks for the password of SYS which never works, you attempt to connect via SQL*PLUS only to discover the message :
ORA-28009: connection to sys should be as sysdba or sysoper
I'm sure you know what I am talking about so I will leave this there, anybody who has come accross this, fixed this, still fixing it, please post the messages tot his thread regardless of version and platform. That way we will have the ultimate source to the solution of this problem.
I look forward to the posts.
A.M

additional comment:
don't forget to remove or rename the associated spfile.
(usually located in the C:\oracle\admin directory for example.)
Otherwise Oracle will never read the specific init<SID>.ora file.
regards,
Udo

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