One also needs to have a password file. Not required, unless you want to be able to. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Zeng, Lei Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:00 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Connecting as sysdba To my knowledge, for a user account to be able to 'connect as sysdba', it needs to be granted 'SYSDBA' privilege (use 'GRANT SYSDBA to USER' command). To check which user account is currently having SYSDBA privilege, query table v$PWFILE_USERS . Lei -----Original Message----- From: syed jaffar hussain [mailto:sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Connecting as sysdba Hello list, I have noticed onething, when I logon to my UNIX as oracle user, I am able to connect to the database as sysdba from any database user. Sqlplus /nolog Connect user_1/password as sysdba; I want to prevent all DB users, except sys, to connect as sysdba. How can I do it? I tried to change the remote_login_passwordfile values but vain. Is this expected behaviour or do I have to change anything in the init.ora file? Regds Jaffar ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------