intpwd in oradim command

[Susan]

I am creating a new oracle 9i sevices on a win2k box. In the oradim
command there is a "INTPWD" parameter which I assume is the internal
password. I thought connecting to internal is deprecated in 9i so is
this still necessary? Or should I just enter "oracle" as it used to be
the default internal password? Thanks.

[bdb...@gmail.com]

manually create a password file (using orapwd.exe) and skip using the
-intpwd switch in the oradim command.
don't leave the create script lying around.
don't use a default value.

you can display the man page for oradim by just typing at a command
prompt:

C:\> oradim

hth

-bdbafh

[Ashish Shanbhag]

Even though it is called Intpwd, it is actually accepting the sys password.
So treat it as sys password. If you want the sys password as "Oracle" only
then you want to keep it as "Oracle". There is no default vaue for this
parameter in 9i.

The password is stored in the password file and used when you connect as sys
to an idle instance to start it up. If you issue an alter user command to
change the sys password from wherever, it will change that value for the
password file too.

-Ashish

"Susan" <susa...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[DA Morgan]

I may be wrong on this and would appreciate the correction if I am ...
but I believe INTERNAL morphed into SYS AS SYSDBA.
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