password scripting question

This is somewhat related to the question earlier about how to encrypt a password in a script... however, what I want to do is also be able to start that database through a script.  

(Oracle 9.2.0.)
 

Essentially I have a database that I want to shut down at 5pm every night, and start it back up at 8am in the morning. I currently have a script that logs into sqlplus "/ as sysdba"  

I tried creating a use OPS$ORACLE and granted it dba, sysdba, and set the tablespaces. And I can log in fine doing a  

$ sqlplus /  

and when I do a 'select user from dual;' it comes back and says OPS$ORACLE... exactly what I want... however when I try to start or shutdown the database it says I must be logged in as SYSDBA or SYSOPR... or I try  

$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"  

logs into oracle just fine, but when I do a 'select user from dual;' it comes back as SYS and not OPS$ORACLE... what am I doing wrong?  

Thanks!  

Nick      

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