Who are you connected to the server as? --Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "aj wells" <awellsdba@xxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: urgent connect '/ as sysdba' insufficient privs 9i instance Linux Okay, we have an instance that we can log into connect sys/password as sysdba and it works fine however... if we try to log in '/ as sysdba' it complains about insufficient privs... suggestions would be most welcome have deleted password file and recreated password file oracle user is a member of the dba group relinked sqlplus what are we missing? ajw -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l