Oracle Database – ORA-01017 when running “sqlplus / as sysdba”
I had a new oracle database server that was working great, and after some security, changes to tighten up the server, the operating system user was receiving an ORA-01017 error every time it tried to connect using the “sqlplus / as sysdba” command. The user could connect with no problem using the command “sqlplus sys as sysdba” and entering the password.
As it turned out the operating system user in this case “oracle” was not in the Oracle group “dba”.
After adding the user back into the dba group the user was able to log back in without an issue:
usermod -a -G dba oracle
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