ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

[GeorgeLee]

Hello,
Could anyone please help me to figure out this problem.
Oracle Dabase: 10.1.0.5.0
OS: Windows 2000

I have created the password file and tried to logon to the database as SYSDBA. But I got the following error.
The OS account is in ORA_DBA group. I think that it does not really matter if I want to use Password File Authentication to logon to the database.

Thanks in advance!!!


C:\>set oracle_sid=ora101
C:\>sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect sys/password as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

SQL> connect system/password
Connected.
SQL> select name,value from v$parameter where name = 'remote_login_passwordfile';
NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote_login_passwordfile
EXCLUSIVE

SQL> select * from v$pwfile_users;
USERNAME SYSDB SYSOP
------------------------------ ----- -----
SYS TRUE TRUE

SQL> connect sys/password as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.

[Frank de Vries]

Check that $ORACLE_SID is set to the correct SID, (including capitalization),
and does not have any typos:

% echo %ORACLE_SID%

e.g. set ORACLE_SID=ORA101

check your service on windows:
net start | find "Ora"

OR

On Windows NT, if you are able to connect internally but then startup fails
for some reason, successive connect internal attempts might prompt for a
password. You may also receive errors such as:

ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified
ORA-01012: not logged on
LCC-00161: Oracle error (possible syntax error)
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

Then do:
net stop OracleHome
and net start
and check the log if it has started properly


Good luck

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

can you please try to run the following:

SQL> connect / as sysdba

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Volker Borowski]

Could it be,

that you are using a Local Server Login and the group membership in ORA_DBA is a domain/AD-account or vice versa ?

Did you set a password using orapwd ?

Volker

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