I'm not sure about recovering it. You can certainly change it to somthing new. If you can connect as SYS or as someone with DBA privs, then simply 'alter user system identified by new_password;' Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: phani krishna [mailto:dbaphani@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:12 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RECOVER SYSTEM password Hi list. Please help me with steps to recover the system password regards phani. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l