Re: Help with a strange behaviour of Oracle on RedHat linux

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:53:37 +0000, charlie cs wrote:

> The strange thing is, as ora92, when you do "sqlplus /nolog", "connect sys
> as sysdba", I can type anything, oracle will accept it, even though I set up
> the password file through "orapwd".
>
> Some init file parameters are as follows:
>
> os_roles=FALSE
> remote_os_authent=FALSE
> remote_os_roles=FALSE
> os_authent_prefix=ops$
>
> What did I do wrong?

You allowed users to sudo to the user that owns the oracle database. Members of the group that owns the oracle database (typically, the group is called "DBA") can connect as SYSDBA, regardless of the parameters.

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