User "vanishes" from pwd-file after "create controlfile command"

From: "Daiminger, Helmut" <HELMUT.DAIMINGER@xxxxxx>
To: "LazyDBA.com Discussion" <oracledba@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:32:34 +0100

Hi!

I just encountered a strange phenomenon: on all our instances, we have a
user called "ADMRMAN" that is used for RMAN/Legato backups. This user
has sysdba privileges.

On a test instance I did a: alter database backup controlfile to trace
then I altered MAXDATAFILES and re-created the controlfile.

But then the user ADMRMAN was no longer able to connect as sysdba...

A "more" on the pwd-file showd that ADMRMAN was still in it, but some
characters in the pwd-file changed (probably "active" flag or something
like that).

Does re-creating the controlfile delete users from the pwd-file?

This is 9.2 on HP-UX 11i.

Thanks,
Helmut
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