Ok, you’re going to have to excuse my ignorance here. I’m no systems developer/web developer/programmer of any kind. But I hope someone here is kind enough to help me solve the situation I am in.
I have a Droplet (SFO2 - CentOS 6.9 x64) that has Oracle installed for an Apex DB. The developer who installed Oracle has now disappeared and left me without access to Oracle itself. He gave me several sets of usernames and passwords, but it seems this one is missing. So my question is: how can we reset the Oracle credentials? We can log in to the console but can’t get access to Oracle.
I apologise upfront if I’ve used the wrong terminology.
Thanks
Tom
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Thanks, but I can’t copy from the console.
When I open the console I’m greeted with
SQL>
I entered the first command and got an error SP-0734: unknown command beginning “SQLPLUS /N…”
so, I guess I’m already in the right place. Then I entered the next command and I get error : ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
Hi Tom
Use the ‘orapwd’ util to change the password, which should be made available to you if you have the oracle bin in your PATH. This doesn’t require you to be logged in to Oracle but at this point the only option for you is to completely reset the SYS password.
I don’t mind helping with this if you’re not very familiar with the Linux command line and running things from the shell.
Cheers
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