No. I tried to start from DOS, I got the same error message. I thought if I issue orapwd command, it is going to change the password for SYS user. I guess it is not true for 9i. How can I fix this instead of guessing the password.

I am confused about the orapwd command, it require you shutdown the database before you run the command, but how it let the database know that the password is changed.

thanks,