Here is the first sign of the Alzheimer disease: <mailto:oracle7.3.4@affpro:$> oracle7.3.4@affpro:$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba" SQL*Plus: Release 3.3.4.0.0 - Production on Tue Sep 14 13:31:45 2004 Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1996. All rights reserved. ERROR: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied Enter user-name: ux01:(/u01/home/oracle/product/7.3.4)-> I am starting to forget all those ancient versions. Does Oracle Corp. have any other plans to change administrative connections again? I worked my way through IOR, sqldba, svrmgrl, both with "connect internal", then "svrmgrl" with both "connect internal" and "connect / as sysdba", and, at the moment, it is sqlplus "/ as sysdba". Can you change it into something more descriptive, like sqlplus "/ as mladen"? I believe that I'd remember that. -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l