U can us the ORA_DBA Groups to do this ... When a user Belong to the ORA_DBA Group in Windows he can connect / as sysdba HTH Cheers Ganesh R On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:59:25 -0400, Aggarwal, Meenakshi <meenakshi.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > What all options I have to connect to Oracle Database without giving the > password. What all should I be taking care of if I don't want to give the > password to shutdown/startup Oracle Database on Windows. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l