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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, vishnudas.

Asked: September 14, 2018 - 10:06 am UTC

Last updated: September 17, 2018 - 4:24 am UTC

Version: 11.2.0.1.0

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hi all,
recently i had an incident..
i just logged into the database as system using sqlplus

when sqlplus prompted for username i put 'SYS AS SYSDBA'
and when prompted for password,instead of entering my password i just hit the ENTER key
and surprisingly i got logged in.After that i tried with a "wrong password" for this case too i got logged in..
What could be the problem???????


and Connor said...

Most commonly due to OS permissions

https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/asktom.search?tag=users-with-sysdba-can-login-to-database-without-password

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