GRANT|REVOKE SYSDBA|SYSOPER to <USER> would do it. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Listers, > > We have auditing enabled via a third party software and one of the things > they are auditing is $OH/dbs/passwordfiles. The password files seem to get > updated and it shows up in the audit reports. > > I am trying to research on what is causing it, but have been unsuccessful. > I came across this one, which does not seem to answer the question: > http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:2318668671089 > . > I tried creating a test user and locking and unlocking that user, but the > password file timestamp did not change in the test case. I tried a user with > DBA privs, that did not change it either. > > Anyone knows what causes the update of the password files when we dont > change the passwords. > > Version is 10.2. > > Ram. > >