It's 'connect "sys as sysdba"' ........................................................................ ............................................................. Kanbay Richard J. Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA 45 Bartlett ST | Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Tel: 508.573.1978 | Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell: 508.742.5795 rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx ........................................................................ ............................................................. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GovindanK Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:45 PM To: cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How login as sysdba with sqlnet.authentication=none Solaris64 Bit 10gRel2 $ cat sqlnet.ora #SQLNET.ORA Network Configuration File SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=(NONE) $ sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Mar 12 17:49:20 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. SQL> connect / as sysdba ERROR: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges SQL> quit $ sqlplus "sys as sysdba" SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Mar 13 11:17:02 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> RMAN scripts connect since they connect using user/passwd using tns. HTH GovindanK -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l