Sounds like a problem with your password file or remote_login_passwordfile parameter? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Weiss Environment: 9.2.0.5 on Red Hat Linux ES3 I was checking backups from last night with the following oddity. The job failed with "User Authentication Failed." Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.