After doing more research on this, this file is required if you want to have
the autostart of an oracle service to happen. Autostart does not work
without this file present. Version 8.1.5 supposedly removed this.
Dave
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All,
This file is gone on 816 on NT.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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$Oracle_Home\database
Also, I forgot to mention that I am on windoze NT.
Dave
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Where is the strt<SID>.cmd file? I don;t see it anywhere under
$ORACLE_HOME.
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> Subject: strt<SID>.cmd security hole??
>
> I inherited an Oracle 7.3.4 database that nobody knew the internal
password
> for. So I was doing some research on metalink and came across an article
> that mentioned the strt<SID>.cmd file would have the password. I was
amazed
> to open up this file and see the unencrypted password for internal. I
then
> check my 8.0.5 database and the same thing. Then I checked my 8.1.7
> database and it was not there. Did this gaping security hole disappear in
> the 8i database? I sure hope so.
> Both the 7.3.4 and 8.0.5 have the remote_login_passwordfile init paramater
> set to SHARED, whereas my 8.1.7 is set to EXCLUSIVE. I don't know if this
> has something to do with it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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