what versioj of oracle unix or windows ? 8i and above connect to the user oracle . in *nix connect / as sysdba alter user system identified by new_password phani krishna <dbaphani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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