forgotten sys password

Hi John,
Can you connect as system or a dba account ?

your answers,
yes,

     alter user sys identified by new_password;
     connect sys/new_password
no
     connect internal from svrmgrl
     alter user sys identified by new_password;
     connect sys/new_password

forvige my poor english

• Forwarded by Leonardo Fernandez/CEG/CMS on 14/09/2000 05:24 PM ---------------------------

John Dunn <john.dunn_at_sefas.co.uk>@fatcity.com on 14/09/2000 12:04:47 PM

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Subject: forgotten sys password

We have an installation of Oracle 8 on Unix that we use only for demonstrations. We have forgotten the sys password.

Anything we can do?

John

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