because most likely you are using a privleged OS user who can log in as sysdba with any password - nothing to do with the password file Lock down the os account if you dont want people to do that On 9/6/05, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Gurus, > I would like to know why does Oracle allow me to connect using any random > > passowrd for SYS user? >