| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
|  |  | |||
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Forgot the password for scott
> SQLPLUS /NOLOG
> 
>    CONNECT / AS SYSDBA
When I run this command, I get a ORA-12560: TNS:Protocol Adapter
Error. Thanks for the suggestions.
>    ALTER USER SCOTT IDENTIFIED BY newpassword;
>    EXIT;
> 
> The connect as ultra-super-duper user "/" (which is really SYS) is a last
> resort.  Under normal circumstances you would do
> 
> 
> SQLPLUS SYSTEM/system_password
>    ALTER USER SCOTT IDENTIFIED BY newpassword;
>    EXIT;
> 
> 
> While in SQL Plus, you may need to unlock SCOTT using
> 
>    ALTER USER SCOTT ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
> 
> (The indents are to indicate this gets typed into SQLPLUS.)
> 
> You really should consider spending a bit more time in the ORACLE CONCEPTS
> manual and skip the ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATION manual at
> http://docs.oracle.com
> 
> HTH
> /Hans
Received on Mon Jul 19 2004 - 11:19:11 CDT
|  |  |