Perhaps you could explain why you need SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE) ? Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, sundar mahadevan < sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I should have been little more informative. I want to retain > SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE) in my sqlnet.ora and would > want oracle database to authenticate the users. Since > SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE) is specified, OS > authentication is disabled and hence / as sysdba fails with > insufficient privileges. But dbstart/dbshut use / as sysdba to start > database from /etc/oratab with values 'Y' against the instance names. > sys/password@orams works fine while connecting normally but I > cannot/donot want to hard code sys password in dbstart/dbshut > scripts(No one would do that). TWO_TASK does not work. When set > TWO_TASK basically is a replacement for @orams where orams is the tns > connection name. It is not set in my environment. I hope I made myself > clear here. Please let me know if you need more info. Thanks for your > help. > > version of oracle: 10.1.0.3.0 > platorm: OEL 5.3 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >