connect internal password problem

[Douglas]

guys, heres the problem, its probably something simple, but I hope you can help.

On solaris, i log in as root, then su - oracle. the db is an 8.1.6 db. i then type svrmgrl, then i connect internal. but it is asking me for a password. i need to shutdown then restart the db for changes in the init.ora to take effect. the oracle user is in the dba group.

is there anyway around this problem.

Chars.

[sreddy]

Doug,

I did something on NT, when I got the same problem. But, I don't remember. How many instances you have on the box ? R U using Remote authentication or Not ? Usually its mismatch between ORACLE_SID and corresponding ORACLE_HOME. Try

echo $ORACLE_SID
echo $ORACLE_HOME

and see its pointing to right version. There are bunch of checks to verify whats the problem. Here I am attaching the metalink doc.


[url]http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=69642.1[/url]