Resolved: ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabled

From: "Mandal, Ashoke" <ashoke.k.mandal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:07:55 -0500

Thanks everyone for your response on this issue. I was able to identify the 
problem. Here is what happened. I had a typo in the soft link created between 
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs to pfile(/dmasdev1/u01/app/oracle/admin/dmasdev1/pfile) 
directory.

Incorrect link  with extra character d: orapwddmasdev1 -> 
/dmasdev1/u01/app/oracle/admin/dmasdev1/pfile/orapwddmasdev1

Correct link: orapwdmasdev1 -> 
/dmasdev1/u01/app/oracle/admin/dmasdev1/pfile/orapwdmasdev1

Once I recreated the soft link by removing the extra character d in password 
file name it resolved the issue.

Ashoke

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 1:32 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabled

Morning Ashoke,

On 02/05/12 00:58, Mandal, Ashoke wrote:

> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01994: GRANT failed: password file missing or disabled ...
> Password file:
> UNIX>   ls -l 
> UNIX> /dmasdev1/u01/app/oracle/admin/dmasdev1/pfile/orapwdmasdev1
> -rwSr-----   1 oracle   oinstall    5120 Apr 30 11:17 
> /dmasdev1/u01/app/oracle/admin/dmasdev1/pfile/orapwdmasdev1-rwSr-----   1 
> oracle   oinstall    5120 Apr 30 11:17 orapwdmasdev1

The password file, should be in the location $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and should by 
default be named orapw<SID>. So your database will be masdev1 given the above.

At work, I keep my init<SID>.ora, spfile<SID>.ora and orapw<SID> files in a 
standard location and sym-link them as follows:

cd /srv/<APP>/oradata/<SID>/pfile
ln -s `pwd`/orapw<SID> $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapw<SID>

Obviously replacing <SID> with the appropriate database SID.

HTH

Cheers,
Norm.

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